Pepper Rodgers, whose long coaching career included UCLA stint, dies at 88

Pepper Rodgers, the wisecracking former UCLA football coach who mentored some of the sport's greatest players and coaches during a career spanning six decades, died Thursday at Reston Hospital Center in Reston, Va. He was 88.

Rodgers was taken off life support after suffering complications from a fall in his bathroom Saturday morning. He sustained arterial bleeding that preceded a stroke and a heart attack, according to his son, Rick Rodgers.

"The doctors told us this would be a serious thing for a 19-year-old, much less an 88-year-old," Rick Rodgers said. "He