Former USC 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, where he played under John Robinson and Ted Tollner from 1982-86. He went to training camp with the New Orleans Saints before his career ended.