Sports in Brief

Chiefs beef up by signing Lilja
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs have signed free agent left guard Ryan Lilja in another step toward beefing up their offensive line.
The deal was announced Tuesday. Terms were not released.
Lilja played in 66 games with the Indianapolis Colts, who claimed him off waivers from Kansas City in 2004. He started eight playoff games with the Colts, including two Super Bowls.
Lilja initially joined the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2004 after finishing his college career at Kansas State, where he was a second-team All-Big 12 selection his senior year.
The 6-foot-2, 290-pound Kansas City native is considered a solid performer when healthy, though he missed part of 2006 and all of 2008 with knee injuries.

Dungy speaks to inmates
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Tony Dungy has taken his message of hope to more than 1,700 inmates at a South Carolina prison complex.
Dungy told minimum security inmates at the Broad River Correctional complex in Columbia on Tuesday that no matter their mistakes, they can choose the right direction and gain redemption.
The Super Bowl winning coach gave up a successful career in the NFL to focus on his family and spend more time ministering to those in prison.
Dungy also was scheduled to speak at Columbia International University and to the South Carolina football team.
Dungy says he’s probably done coaching in the NFL, and has enjoyed his time helping those behind bars. He’s also advised Philadelphia quarterback Michael Vick.

Mackey wins 4th straight Iditarod
NOME, Alaska (AP) — Lance Mackey won the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the first musher in the event’s 38-year history to win four consecutive races.
Fans bundled up against subzero temperatures cheered the 39-year-old throat cancer survivor as his team coasted up the main street of this old Gold Rush town. For winning, Mackey gets a new Dodge truck and $50,400. He finished the race in eight days, 23 hours and 59 minutes — the second-fastest finish in race history.