Michael Johnson grew up in public housing on the Near West Side and went on to leadership roles in the Boys & Girls Club ...

Michael Johnson’s bid to reinvent track and field has veered into controversy. Just months after the abrupt collapse of his ambitious Grand Slam Track league, the Olympic legend is under scrutiny over ...

As the debate over athletics’ Grand Slam Track fiasco continues to rage, you might have expected champion sprinter Donovan Bailey – a bitter rival of Michael Johnson’s during their 1990s heyday – to ...

The Olympian's start-up athletics vehicle has been beset by financial problems. Roger Wimmer / ISI Photos via Getty Images Grand Slam Track (GST), the start-up athletics league headed by former ...

Grand Slam Track, the league fronted by sprint great Michael Johnson,a Dallas native, that offered six-figure prize money for top runners, has filed for bankruptcy after canceling its final event and ...

Signature victories are hard to come by in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, but Michael Johnson certainly has one to which he can point. “The Menace” rebounded from back-to-back losses to Beneil ...

Johnson, 50, an influential Madison resident and the president and CEO of the organization, died unexpectedly, according to a ...

“No harm, no foul” — at least publicly. Longtime Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) veteran Michael Johnson is set to return this weekend (Sat., March 7, 2026) at UFC 326 inside T-Mobile Arena in ...