Check Your Calendars: It’s Time for Mistakes

While everyone knows you don’t have to be a math major to become a Times sportswriter . . .

* Ross Newhan’s declaration that “there is a Sept. 31 deadline for submitting a 1998 schedule . . . “ I hope the union is holding its breath.

* Mike DiGiovanna’s declaration that Tony Conigliaro “suffered a massive heart attack in 1983 and was in a coma for about eight years before he died Feb. 24, 1990.” Time flies when you’re having fun, right, Mike?

CRAIG LESLY

Santa Ana