Newsmakers

Extended Iowa State announced a 10-year, $20 million contract with Paul Rhoads, hoping to keep the promising young football coach with the Cyclones for years to come. His five-year deal that ran through 2013 paid him $1.15 million this year. The school said the total value of the new contract was $20 million, with specific terms to be released later. Rhoads is 18-19 overall as a head coach, all at Iowa State.

• Florida basketball coach Billy Donovan signed a three-year contract extension that should keep him in Gainesville through the 2015-16 season. Donovan agreed to the extension in October, adding to the six-year deal he signed in 2007 that pays him $3.5 million annually.

Ruled A judge in Montreal ruled in favor of Arturo Gatti’s widow in a legal dispute over the late boxer’s estate. Amanda Rodrigues was the clear winner in the verdict, which came after a deeply personal legal battle over a $3.4 million fortune that pitted Rodrigues against Gatti’s mother and youngest brother. The judge ruled that Gatti’s last will – signed in 2009 – was legitimate. The Gatti family has argued the boxer was duped into signing the will just weeks before his mysterious death at a Brazilian resort. The family argued a will from 2007 that left everything to them should have been considered valid, but a signed copy has never been found.

• A Canadian sports doctor sought out by superstar athletes for help in healing from injuries avoided prison for bringing unapproved and mislabeled drugs into the United States for house calls. Dr. Anthony Galea of Toronto was sentenced to time served in U.S. District Court in Buffalo. The sentence amounted to a single day, that of Galea’s arrest. The healing specialist, who has helped Tiger Woods and other big-name athletes come back from injuries, pleaded guilty to the federal charge in July. Prosecutors have not publicly identified the athletes.

Charged Police charged former Boston Bruins player and coach Mike Milbury with assaulting a 12-year-old Pee Wee hockey player who was jawing with his son. Brookline, Mass., police Capt. Tom Keaveney said Milbury, an assistant coach on his son’s team, allegedly grabbed, threatened and shook the opposing player as the teams were shooting around following a Dec. 9 game at a town-owned rink. The boy wasn’t hurt, Keaveney said.

Honored Mars Hill College running back Jonas Randolph won the Harlon Hill Trophy as Division II’s top player. He received 120 points in balloting by Division II sports information directors for a three-point edge over Washburn (Kan.) University quarterback Dane Simoneau.