Fast Bucks

The winner of the Michael Johnson-Donovan Bailey 150-meter showdown on June 1 in Toronto will go home with not only the title of World's Fastest Human but also a million bucks—not bad for about 14 seconds' work. Here are the per-second wages of some of sport's speediest stars:

MIKE TYSON
89-second KO of Peter McNeeley, 1995
$280,898 per second

JOHNSON VS. BAILEY WINNER
$71,000 per second

SILVER CHARM
1997 Preakness winner, in 1:54.8
$4,282 per second

MICHAEL JORDAN
1996-97 regular season, 3,106 minutes played
$160.97 per second

FATUMA ROBA
1997 Boston Marathon women's champion, in 2:26:24
$8.54 per second