Kansas City Chiefs? wide receiver Derrick Alexander signed a one-day contract with the team yesterday so he could retire a Chief. Alexander, who has not played football since 2002, when he played for the Minnesota Vikings, had 417 catches for 6,971 yards with 40 touchdowns and 16 rushes for 210 yards during his NFL career. Alexander played for the Chiefs from 1998-2001. In his tenure caught 213 passes for 3,685 yards with 19 TDs.

On Tuesday the NFL suspended Kansas City Chiefs starting cornerback Eric Warfield for the first four games of the 2005 season, the sanctions coming as a result of multiple DUI convictions. The suspension will cost the Chiefs a talented cover defender, one who has started in all but one game over the last four seasons, and will cost Warfield $776,470 in base salary. That amount represents four-seventeenths of the $3.3 million base salary that Warfield was scheduled to earn in 2005. Warfield, 29, was arrested for DUI on Sept. 20, 2004 in Overland Park, Kan., and police reports indicated that he had a blood alcohol level of .189 at the time, more than double Kansas' legal limit of .08. Warfield pleaded no contest in January to the felony charges. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 80 days of house arrest, was fined $1,500 and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.

A big name in this year?s supplemental draft, receiver Roscoe Crosby used to be a prospect for the Kansas City Royals. The Royals made him a second-round pick in the 2001 amateur draft and gave him a deal that included a $1.75 million bonus. Crosby had to pay back $750,000 of that money as he never played in the minors due to an arm injury. ?Roscoe is a professional.? Said his agent Kevin Parker. ?When the Kansas City Royals drafted him, he was 18 years old. Whatever happened or didn?t happen, that was then. He?s 22, he?s matured. ? He?s very much at peace, and he?s excited.? The Chiefs, in need of a receiver are taking a serious look at the man who was once considered the No. 1 wider receiver prospect in the nation.

Hank Stram, who took the Kansas City Chiefs to two Super Bowls and was known for his inventive game plans, died Monday, his son said. He was 82. Stram had been in declining health for several years and Dale Stram attributed his father's death to complications from diabetes. He died at St. Tammany Parish Hospital, near his home in Covington, across Lake Pontchartrain from New Orleans. He had built a home there during his two-year stint as coach of the Saints and retired there. ``Pro football has lost one of its most innovative and creative coaches and one of its most innovative and creative personalities as well,'' Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt said in a telephone interview. Stram was the Chiefs' first coach. He took over the expansion Dallas Texans of the upstart AFL in 1960 and coached them through 1974, moving with them to Kansas City where they were renamed the Chiefs in 1963.

The Kansas Chiefs added free agent cornerback Ashley Ambrose Friday, signing the former Saint to a one-year contract. Ambrose (5'10", 185) has played in 192 career regular season games (141 starts) with Indianapolis ('92-95), Cincinnati ('96-98), Atlanta ('00-02) and New Orleans ('99, '03-04).