Event of Interest
Dec 11 Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek suffers a minor heart attack in his home and is admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Alex Trebek
- Dec 12 77th Heisman Trophy Award: Robert Griffin III, Baylor (QB)
Event of Interest
Dec 15 Barry Bonds is sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service, for an obstruction of justice conviction stemming from a grand jury appearance in 2003

Barry Bonds
- Dec 18 The last US troops withdraw from Iraq, formally ending the Iraq War