Former Southern California football player Lonnie White says he took $14,000 in illegal payments during his four-year career in the 1980s, mostly by selling game tickets allotted to scholarship players. White made the admission Wednesday in a first-person story for The Daily, an online publication. He was a sports writer at the Los Angeles Times from 1987 to 2008. White was a receiver and special-teams player at USC, where he played under John Robinson and Ted Tollner from 1982-86. He went to training camp with the New Orleans Saints before his football career ended. White says he sold the four season tickets provided to every scholarship player, which is illegal. Players also had the option of buying four more tickets to home games. Read more: http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/ncf/news/story?id=6698353
