Barry Switzer

The Dallas Cowboys thought they might be the last team standing. Now, they could be the first team drafting. So how does a proud franchise miss the mark in such a spectacular way, following its most promising season in a decade by losing seven of its first eight games? Is it all coaching? What role does Cowboys owner Jerry Jones play? How do those players ? essentially the same group that won a playoff game last season ? allow themselves to be embarrassed the way they were in Sunday's 45-7 loss at Green Bay?

The Dallas Cowboys thought they might be the last team standing. Now, they could be the first team drafting. So how does a proud franchise miss the mark in such a spectacular way, following its most promising season in a decade by losing seven of its first eight games? Is it all coaching? What role does Cowboys owner Jerry Jones play? How do those players ? essentially the same group that won a playoff game last season ? allow themselves to be embarrassed the way they were in Sunday's 45-7 loss at Green Bay?

Jamelle Holieway, University of Oklahoma quarterback between 1985 and '88, said he received favors from boosters and former Coach Barry Switzer while attending the school, but denied published allegations that he had received cash payments funneled through a convicted burglar. Holieway, the 1984 L.A.

"Turmoil? I call it doping and raping and shooting. Let's call it what it is. No need to put frills on it." Barry Switzer, former Oklahoma football coach, on the off-the-field turmoil that marked the end of his reign at the school in 1988

Oklahoma football Coach Barry Switzer had surgery after injuring both knees skiing in Colorado.

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."- - Barry Switzer, former Oklahoma and Dallas Cowboy coach

A reporter's $30 million lawsuit over a book by former Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer is scheduled to go to trial today. Jack Taylor Jr., former reporter for the former Dallas Times Herald, has accused Switzer of libel, slander and invasion of privacy in the ex-coach's autobiography "Bootlegger's Boy."

Barry Switzer said Sunday that Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones has two coaching candidates, and George Seifert isn't one of them. Switzer, who stepped down as Cowboy coach Thursday, told Oklahoma City television station KWTV-TV that he and scouting director Larry Lacewell talked with Jones about a new coach last week. Switzer said Seifert, the former San Francisco 49er coach, will not be named to replace him, but wouldn't divulge the names of the two candidates.

Barry Switzer, who took the majority of the blame for the Dallas Cowboys' 6-10 season and failure to reach the playoffs for the first time since 1990, has reached an agreement to step down as coach, a source told The Associated Press. The source inside the Cowboys organization, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Thursday that Switzer and owner Jerry Jones reached the agreement this week. But it was not clear whether Switzer would remain with the team as a consultant.

Barry Switzer isn't blaming himself for the Dallas Cowboys' failed season. "I did as good a job as when we won the Super Bowl, probably a little bit better considering some of the younger players," the coach said Tuesday. Dallas has won three Super Bowls in the 1990s, including one in Switzer's second season as coach. This season, a combination of injuries, age and undisciplined play has led to a 6-9 record, putting Switzer's job in jeopardy.

Dallas Cowboy Coach Barry Switzer, arrested last summer carrying a loaded pistol in his luggage at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor gun charge. Switzer was fined $3,500 and was given deferred adjudication, meaning if he completes probation successfully the charge will be erased from his record. He also agreed to serve 80 hours of public service as a condition of his probation. Earlier in the day, the Cowboys received bad news about quarterback Troy Aikman.

After an exhaustive search of every strip joint in the area, including repeated trips to the Million Dollar Saloon--the most logical place to locate Michael Irvin--he could not be found. Duty-bound, of course, the search will continue. But for now--barring any last-minute "Hard Copy" fuzzy-film revelations showing a puff of smoke and Barry Switzer standing on that grassy knoll 34 years ago--it can be reported only that the Cowboys' Operation Image Make-Over appears to be genuine.

Dallas Cowboy Coach Barry Switzer was charged Thursday with unlawfully carrying a weapon, but not the more serious felony of having a loaded revolver in his carry-on baggage at an airport. Switzer was arrested Monday for taking the gun into the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in his carry-on bag. Tarrant County prosecutors charged Switzer with the Class-A misdemeanor for carrying the handgun without a permit. If convicted, he could face up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.

Barry Switzer was fined $75,000 by Dallas Cowboy owner Jerry Jones, who said his coach's arrest on a gun charge brought "pain and embarrassment" to a team trying to repair its image. The fine is the largest imposed on an NFL coach. "It's a serious and significant fine," Jones said. "I made the fine what I made it because of his role as a coach.." Jones said Switzer's job was not in jeopardy.