Thought we'd talk corrections today.

On Thursday, the RJ ran two corrections stemming from articles earlier this week.

The first one is clearly a coach or volunteer's error.

"Because of incorrect information provided to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the player who hit the game-winning shot in the Coronado-Basic girls basketball game Tuesday was misidentified in Wednesday's Sports section. Coronado's Nicole Ruffino made a basket with 12 seconds left to give the Cougars a 51-49 victory."

This is fairly bad as the RJ missed which player made the winning shot. But there's little that can really be done about this. High school sports reporting is largely done by phone and through the self-reporting of the teams involved.

Unless it's a big game with big consequences, the RJ doesn't send staff.

So, the "incorrect information provided" probably came from the Basic side. It would be pretty hard to imagine Coronado getting that wrong.

The other error is in a Yucca Mountain story from Wednesday. Keith Rogers screwed up how far along the project

"A percentage in a story Wednesday about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project was incorrect. Nevada officials estimate the project's design is 20 percent complete."

Strange correction. Rogers wrote that the attorney for Nevada made the 20 percent claim.

"Also, Marty Malsch, a lawyer with a Washington, D.C.-area firm retained by the state, told nuclear regulators the repository's design should be rejected because it is only 20 percent complete."

Rogers made the attribution to Malsch and said that's what he told nuclear regulators.

Obviously the nuke lobby doesn't agree with the state and called the RJ to bitch. Should Rogers have put another attribution right before the 20 percent complete?

We think the RJ editors caved on this correction and find Rogers' original attribution of the information to the attorney for Nevada to be sufficient. At best, it could be worth a clarification.

Remember. The RJ's parent company does lots of investment with pro-Yucca groups. (See "About Them")

But, a correction is a correction. Rogers gets one in the tally.