Lewis Johnson stands 6-foot-6 and looks like a basketball player, but the Turner Sports sideline reporter has a background in track and field dating back to his All-American days running the 800 meters at Cincinnati in the mid-1980s and a seven-year professional career in Europe.
A background in track and field hasn't stopped Johnson from covering Notre Dame football, the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, the Summer and Winter Olympics and the NBA Playoffs in the last 20-plus years for NBC, ABC, CBS, ESPN and Turner Sports. Johnson, who's in Oklahoma City for TNT's coverage of Thunder vs.