Pepper Rodgers, colorful college football coach, dies at 88

Pepper Rodgers, a wisecracking former college football coach who mentored several notable players and coaches during his career, died May 14 at a hospital in Reston, Va. He was 88.

He was taken off life support after suffering complications from a fall at his home. He sustained arterial bleeding that preceded a stroke and a heart attack, said his son Rick Rodgers.