Here's a happy ending - philanthropists John and Marcia Goldman have quietly handed San Francisco a check for $105,000 to cover all the city's costs of the Batkid day that took the world by storm.

"When we read in your column how the Make-A-Wish Foundation was trying to raise the money to pay back the city for the setup and public safety costs surrounding the event, we thought, 'Wait a minute - they shouldn't have to pay for such a good deed and such an amazing event,' " John Goldman said when we called about the donation.

Goldman said the donation was his wife's idea.

"We've supported Make-A-Wish for some time," Goldman said. "What a great way to celebrate something really amazing. It brought out the best in the city and showed it to the world."

The Nov. 15 party for 5-year-old leukemia patient Miles Scott brought thousands into the streets and congratulatory messages to the crime-fighting tyke from everyone from President Obama to Tea Party Sen. Ted Cruz.

Hartmann Studios - which built the staging at City Hall where Mayor Ed Lee and Police Chief Greg Suhr gave Miles the key to the city - helped keep the civic price tag down by donating some of its services.

Hazing scandal: Two Woodside High School varsity boys basketball players were beaten, gagged, duct-taped to chairs and had their faces painted with lipstick as part of a hazing by fellow teammates during a recent Central Valley road trip, according to an attorney for one of the boys' families.

The attorney, Christopher Dolan of San Francisco, is exploring possible legal action against the Sequoia Union High School District over the incidents.

Details are sketchy but, according to Dolan, the hazing took place during a post-Christmas tournament trip to the town of Newman (Stanislaus County).

According to Dolan, photos and cell phone camera footage show portions of the incidents in which the two boys allegedly were jumped by their teammates at the hotel where they were staying, then separately forced into chairs, "battered and bruised," and silenced with tape over their mouths.

Witnesses also reported that the team's coach forced one of the bound boys to watch Spanish-language TV for an hour, telling him he was "going to have to learn to speak Spanish," Dolan said Friday.

"There is no doubt from what I've seen that this was orchestrated by and executed at the direction of coach (Doug) Fountain," who has since been dismissed by the school, Dolan said.

Details of one of the alleged incidents popped up in recent days in a series of Web postings on the NorCalPreps message board.

Fountain could not be reached for comment, and Woodside High Principal Diane Burbank did not return our call Friday.

But Sequoia District Superintendent James Lianides called the incident "extremely unfortunate" and said, "That type of behavior is not something we will tolerate."

He added, "We certainly reached a point where we felt very secure" in firing Fountain as well as the junior varsity coach. "We are working with the players and others to address issues that we felt needed addressing."

Dolan, by the way, is the same lawyer representing the family of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy at Children's Hospital Oakland. She is now being cared for at an undisclosed facility back east.

Nadia's world: Former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer's comeback tour continues - this time with a cover story in the OC Weekly of Orange County.

The profile covers a lot of familiar territory, including the meth-fueled sex scandal that cost Lockyer her supervisor's job and nearly ended her marriage to Treasurer Bill Lockyer before she went into rehab.

"I was a mother with no help," Lockyer recalls of the early days of being married to her much older husband, who was state attorney general at the time.

"I began to get tired of changing into my gala dress in airport restrooms," she told the Weekly's Steve Lowery.

Once, she said, she had to change her son's diaper in a restaurant and ended up "getting some stuff on my clothes. And as I'm on my knees, trying to deal with all this, I hear Bill behind me say, 'Nadia, I'd like you to meet Al Gore.' And all I can think is, 'I just want a normal life.' "

It has turned out to be anything but that, though she did score a victory last week when Orange County prosecutors dropped drug and child-endangerment charges against her after she had completed a drug diversion program.

These days, Nadia, who is living in Long Beach, is sporting matching feather tattoos - one on a foot and the other behind her left ear - to honor her Native American heritage.

It seems to be "a not-all-that-subtle announcement that she is done with politics, at least running for office," Lowery writes.

"Tattoos on your head don't win statewide elections."