Correction

Correction

In Tuesday’s edition, the name of the Girard High base runner was listed incorrectly in the baseball photo on page B1.

The Girard player is Dante DelBene.

Buckeyes to appear Saturday at mall

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Three members of the Ohio State basketball team will appear at the Eastwood Mall on Saturday from 2-4 p.m.

Dallas Lauderdale, Jon Diebler and David Lighty will be outside the Everything Buckeyes store.

For details call 330-747-2661 ext. 771.

Browns open preseason vs. Packers

CLEVELAND

The Browns will open their preseason — assuming there is one because of the NFL lockout — against the Super Bowl-champion Green Bay Packers.

The Browns will host the Packers sometime between Aug. 11-15 before welcoming the Detroit Lions (Aug. 18-22). The team said specific dates and kickoff times will be announced in the future.

Cleveland’s first road exhibition is in Philadelphia (Aug. 25-29), and the Browns will conclude their preseason at Chicago (Sept. 1-2). This will be the eighth straight year the Browns have met the Bears in the preseason finale.

Steelers announce preseason schedule

PITTSBURGH

The Steelers will play host to the Philadelphia Eagles and the Atlanta Falcons in the 2011 preseason.

Pittsburgh will open the schedule on the road against the Washington Redskins, the fifth straight preseason matchup between the teams at FedEx Field. The Steelers are 5-13-1 all-time in the preseason against the Redskins in a series that started in 1967.

The Steelers will conclude the preseason on the road against the Carolina Panthers, the ninth consecutive year the two teams will play in the finale.

Dates are to be determined.

Hall of Fame Game

CANTON

The National Football League announced on Tuesday that the Chicago Bears and St. Louis Rams will play in the 2011 NFL/Hall of Fame Game in Canton on Aug. 7.

The game will be televised nationally on NBC’s Sunday Night Football with kickoff set for 8 p.m.

Tickets to the game played in Fawcett Stadium are on sale now at Profootballhof.com or by calling 800-913-9788.

Illinois removing 2,200 seats from stadium

CHAMPAIGN, Ill.

The University of Illinois will permanently remove about 2,200 seats from Memorial Stadium because the bleachers are getting too old to use.

Illinois spokesman Kent Brown said Tuesday the move will drop the stadium’s capacity from 62,870 to about 60,600. He said the aluminum bleacher seats in the stadium’s south end zone were installed in 1982 and intended to be temporary.

Engineers who have examined the seats say they should be removed.

Amputee sprinter to participate in NY meet

The prospect of lining up in a lane next to the best 400-meter able-bodied sprinters in the world, in his first major meet in America no less, has double-amputee runner Oscar Pistorius a little jittery.

Still, the upcoming race in New York might just provide the nudge he needs.

The 24-year-old South African known as “Blade Runner” finished in a personal-best time of 45.61 seconds during a 400-meter race last month, giving him the “B” qualifier for the world championships in Daegu, South Korea.

Beckham may return for MLS season

TORONTO

David Beckham says there’s a chance he will return to Major League Soccer after this season.

Beckham’s five-year contract with the Los Angeles Galaxy expires after this season. But the midfielder says in Toronto on Tuesday that he may play another year in the league, and wants to be involved with the England team at the 2012 London Olympics.

Vindicator staff/wire reports