Today, we celebrate the birthday of Marion Barber III, a remarkable football player whose legacy continues to inspire all who watched him play. Born on June 10, 1983, in Plymouth, Minnesota ...

FILE - Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III carries during the team's NFL football game against the New York Giants on Sept. 20, 2009, in Arlington, Texas.

Marion Barber III was shy in public and not comfortable talking to reporters, but those weren't the biggest reasons he wanted company in interviews. He simply didn't enjoy talking about himself or ...

Marion Barber III played running back for the Dallas Cowboys from 2005 to 2010 after being drafted in the fourth round out of Minnesota. Nicknamed “Marion the Barbarian,” he became a fan ...

Barber was selected in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft and spent six years in Dallas. He never topped 1,000 yards, often due to working in a committee, but he was a beast in the red zone ...

Maroney also expressed regret and apologized to Barber's parents, Marion Jr. and Karen, that he wasn't able to help Marion III more as he went through post-football struggles that included being ...

The passing of Marion Barber III received some closure Monday. The former Gophers running back’s cause of death on June 1 was determined to be heat stroke and its manner was deemed an accident ...

Former NFL running back Marion Barber, who played six of his seven seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, was found dead in his Texas apartment on Wednesday, authorities said. He was 38.

Brandon Loree of Blogging the Boys shared Judkins' Relative Athletic Score ahead of the draft, and his numbers are nearly identical to Marion Barber III's when he entered the league 20 years ago.

Marion Barber III, a running back for the Dallas Cowboys, is 220 rock-hard pounds of furious forward motion. He likes nothing more than to run right over the biggest, strongest, meanest men in the ...