2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup
The 2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California in the United States and was part of the International Series of the 2005 ATP Tour. It was the 79th edition of the Los Angeles Open and the tournament ran from July 25 through July 31, 2003. First-seeded Andre Agassi won his fourth singles title at the tournament and overall last title of his career.


2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup, Finals, Doubles
Rick Leach /  Brian MacPhie defeated  Jonathan Erlich /  Andy Ram 6–3, 6–4


2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup – Doubles
Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan were the defending champions, but lost in the semifinals this year.


2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup – Doubles
Rick Leach and Brian MacPhie won in the final 6–3, 6–4, against Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram.


2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup – Singles
Tommy Haas was the defending champion, but lost in the second round this year.


2005 Mercedes-Benz Cup – Singles
Andre Agassi won the tournament, beating Gilles Müller in the final, 6–4, 7–5.


2005 Meteor Awards
The 2005 Meteor Music Awards was hosted by comedian Ed Byrne at the Point Theatre on Thursday 24 February 2005. It was the fifth edition of Ireland's national music awards. A total of sixteen awards were presented at the ceremony, with the public eligible to vote in five categories. Snow Patrol won two awards (Best Irish Band and Best Irish Album for Final Straw), whilst Franz Ferdinand also picked up two awards (Best International Band and Best International Album for Franz Ferdinand). Paddy Casey and Juliet Turner were named Best Irish Male and Best Irish Female. The Chalets won Best New Band.


2005 Meteor Awards, Performances
There were performances on the night from Westlife, Snow Patrol, Aslan, The Thrills, Bell X1 and The Devlins.


2005 Meteor Awards, Multiple nominations
Despite receiving three nominations, Declan O'Rourke won nothing. Franz Ferdinand and Snow Patrol were multiple award winners in two categories.


2005 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2005 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 25–27, 2005. The top four regular season finishers of the league's teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Dutchess Stadium in Wappingers Falls, New York. Manhattan won their first tournament championship and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2005 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four teams were seeded one through four based on their conference winning percentage. They then played a double-elimination tournament.


2005 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Andy Kiriakedes was named Tournament Most Outstanding Player. Kiriakedes was a shortstop for Marist who batted .500 for the tournament.


2005 Metro Manila Film Festival
The 31st Metro Manila Film Festival was held in Manila, Philippines from December 25, 2005 to January 7, 2006.


2005 Metro Manila Film Festival
Zsa Zsa Padilla, Marvin Agustin and the movie, Blue Moon topped the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival. The festival's Best Picture award went to Regal Films' Blue Moon, while the Best Actress and Best Actor awards were awarded to Padilla and Agustin for their roles in Mano Po 4: Ako Legal Wife and Kutob respectively. The Best Supporting Actor and Actress awards went to Jose Manalo for Enteng Kabisote 2: Okay Ka Fairy Ko: The Legend Continues and Cherry Pie Picache for Mano Po 4: Ako Legal Wife.


2005 Metro Manila Film Festival, Entries
There are two batches of films in competition, the first batch was shown from December 25, while the second batch was shown on January 1, 2006.


2005 Metro Manila Film Festival, Ceremony Information, "Best Director" issue
Director Joel Lamangan walked out after he lost to Jose Javier Reyes. Lamangan failed to win the Best Director for Blue Moon against Reyes' Kutob. In the same year, Regal Films's matriarch Lily Monteverde voiced out her disappointment as she lamented that some winners in the festival were "undeserving."


2005 Mexican Figure Skating Championships
The 2005 Mexican Figure Skating Championships took place between 19 and 20 November 2004 in Lomas Verdes. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, and ice dancing on the senior level. The results were used to choose the Mexican teams to the 2005 World Championships and the 2005 Four Continents Championships.


2005 Mexican elections
A number of local elections took place in Mexico during 2005:


2005 Mexico–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
The 2005 diplomatic crisis between Mexico and Venezuela began after the Fourth Summit of the Americas where Mexican President Vicente Fox made veiled criticisms of anti-Free Trade Area of the Americas leaders.


2005 Mexico–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
Following Fox's declarations, on November 10, 2005, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez stated in a speech to supporters in Caracas that he was saddened that "the president of a people like the Mexicans lets himself become the puppy of the empire" for what he alleged was Fox's obsequience to U.S. trade interests in his promotion of the newly stalled FTAA.


2005 Mexico–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
Additionally, on the November 13, 2005 episode of his weekly talk show Aló Presidente, Chávez stated that the Mexican president was "bleeding from his wounds" and warned Fox to not "mess" with him, lest Fox "get stung". Fox, upon hearing of the remarks, expressed his outrage and threatened to recall Mexico's ambassador to Venezuela if the Venezuelan government did not promptly issue an apology. However, rather than apologizing, Chávez simply recalled Venezuela's own ambassador to Mexico City, Vladimir Villegas. The Mexican ambassador to Caracas was recalled the following day. Fox pulled the credentials of the Venezuelan ambassador to make it clear that Villegas was kicked out, not recalled as Venezuela claimed.


2005 Mexico–Venezuela diplomatic crisis
Although ties between the two countries have been strained, neither country will say that diplomatic ties have been indefinitely severed. Several groups both in Mexico and Venezuela worked to restore the diplomatic relationship between the two countries. In August 2007 normal relations were re-established with the appointment of former foreign minister Roy Chaderton as Venezuela's envoy in Mexico City and the transfer of Jesús Mario Chacón Carrillo, formerly Mexican ambassador to Colombia, to Caracas.


2005 Miami Dolphins season
The 2005 Miami Dolphins season was the franchise’s 40th overall, the 36th as a member of the National Football League. The Dolphins managed to improve upon their previous season’s output of 4–12, posting a winning record of 9–7. They finished the season on a six-game win streak and ended their season with an upset over the defending back-to-back Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, the Dolphins' second straight year beating them as defending champions.


2005 Miami Dolphins season, Schedule
In addition to their regular games with AFC East rivals, the Dolphins played teams from the AFC West and NFC South as per the schedule rotation, and also played intraconference games against the Browns and the Titans based on divisional positions from 2004.


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 2005 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. It was the Hurricanes' 80th season of football and 2nd as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The Hurricanes were led by fifth-year head coach Larry Coker and played their home games at the Orange Bowl. They finished the season 9–3 overall and 6–2 in the ACC to finish in second place in the Coastal Division. They were invited to the Peach Bowl where they lost to LSU, 40-3.


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Season
Miami dropped its first game of the season at archrival Florida State, 10–7, when punter/holder Brian Monroe fumbled the snap on a 28-yard game-tying field goal attempt by kicker Jon Peattie with 2:16 left to play in the fourth quarter. Despite gaining 313 yards of offense to Florida State's 170, Miami lost to its archrival for the first time since 1999 (6 straight wins by Miami). The three turnovers, two missed field goals, and a muffed hold on the game-tying field goal attempt were also a contributing factor in the outcome for Miami.


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Season
The Hurricanes rebounded by winning 8 straight games (including a 27–7 win over previously unbeaten Virginia Tech in Blacksburg) and climbed to the #3 spot in both polls. However, any hopes of a sixth national championship were dashed when the Hurricanes were upset, 14–10, by Georgia Tech at home on November 19 (the game was originally scheduled for October 22, but was postponed in the wake of Hurricane Wilma).


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Season
The Miami offense, which had problems all season, sputtered badly against Georgia Tech and quarterback Kyle Wright was booed continuously during the second half of the game by the Orange Bowl crowd for his ineffective play. The loss also knocked Miami out of a spot in the inaugural ACC Championship Game.


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Season
Miami finished the regular season at 9–2 (6–2 ACC), ranked #9 in both polls, and received an invitation to return to the Peach Bowl to face the 10th-ranked LSU Tigers. However, this trip to Atlanta was much different from the Hurricanes last, as Wright and the Miami offense struggled, and the defense, which had been the top-ranked defense in Division I-A for most of the season, was shredded by the LSU offense. Miami was routed, 40–3, in the worst-bowl loss in the program's history. The 'Canes finished the 2005 campaign with a 9–3 record and ranked #18/17 (USA Today/AP).


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Aftermath
Coker's three-loss seasons at Miami were viewed as failures, and the season-opening loss to FSU and the bowl loss to LSU made the 2005 campaign particularly difficult for alumni and fans of the proud program to swallow. The Hurricane offense had been the center of criticism all season long (as well as during the two previous seasons). In particular, offensive coordinator Dan Werner, offensive line coach Art Kehoe, and quarterback Kyle Wright were assigned most of the blame.


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Peach Bowl loss, head coach Larry Coker fired four assistants: Werner, Kehoe, running backs coach Don Soldinger, and linebacker coach Vernon Hargreaves. The firing of Kehoe was particularly controversial, as he had been with the program as a player and then a coach for over 25-years and took part in all five of Miami's national championships.


2005 Miami Hurricanes football team, Aftermath
With Miami failing to win a conference championship or go to a BCS bowl the previous two years and not having won a national championship since 2001, it was widely assumed that Coker would enter the 2006 season on the hot seat and need to take Miami to a BCS bowl to keep his job.


2005 Miami RedHawks football team
The 2005 Miami RedHawks football team represented the Miami University in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. They played their home games at Yager Stadium in Oxford, Ohio and competed as members of the Mid-American Conference. The team was coached by head coach Shane Montgomery.


2005 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 2005 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State University in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. Michigan State competed as a member of the Big Ten Conference, and played their home games at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. The Spartans were led by third-year head coach John L. Smith.


2005 Michigan State Spartans football team, 2006 NFL Draft
The following players were selected in the 2006 NFL Draft.


2005 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 2005 Michigan Wolverines football team represented the University of Michigan in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Lloyd Carr. The Wolverines played their home games at Michigan Stadium. That year Michigan Wolverines football competed in the Big Ten Conference in almost all intercollegiate sports including men's college football.


2005 Michigan Wolverines football team
Despite a disappointing 7–5 finish after being ranked as high as #2 early in the season, Michigan did not lose a game by more than a touchdown and upset Penn State, who finished #3 in the nation, on a last second touchdown pass from Chad Henne to Mario Manningham. The team earned an invitation to participate in the 2005 Alamo Bowl, where it lost to the Nebraska Cornhuskers by a 32–28 margin. The team's first five conference games were all decided in the final 24 seconds of regulation or in overtime.


2005 Michigan Wolverines football team, Statistical achievements
The team led the conference in kick return average in all games (23.4), while Michigan State led in conference games. Mike Hart set the school record for career 200-yard games (4), passing Ron Johnson's 3 set in 1968. He extended the record, which is still standing, to 5 in 2007. His 200-yard game came after missing two and a half games due to injury. During the three injury-affected games Michigan lost to Notre Dame and Wisconsin and slipped out of the polls for the first time since 1998, snapping the nation's longest streak of 114-straight poll appearances.


2005 Michigan Wolverines softball team
The 2005 Michigan Wolverines softball team was an American college softball team that represented the University of Michigan during the 2005 NCAA softball season. The Wolverines, led by head coach Carol Hutchins in her twenty-first season, played their home games at Alumni Field in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Wolverines finished the season with a 65–7 record, setting a program record for wins. They competed in the Big Ten Conference, where the team finished first with a 15–2 conference record.


2005 Michigan Wolverines softball team
They won the 2005 Big Ten Conference Softball Tournament and qualified for the NCAA Division I Softball Tournament, reaching the postseason for the eleventh consecutive year. They defeated UCLA in three games in the finals of the 2005 Women's College World Series to win their first championship in program history. They became the first team in the Big Ten to win the Women's College World Series, and the first team east of the Mississippi River to win the NCAA Division I Softball championship.


2005 Michigan Wolverines softball team, Preseason
The Wolverines were ranked No. 8 in the nation according to the USA Today/NFCA and No. 12 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason poll, becoming the top-ranked Big Ten school in both listings. Jessica Merchant and Nicole Motycka were both named to the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year preseason watch list.


2005 Micronesian Championships in Athletics
The 2005 Micronesian Championships in Athletics took place between December 14–15, 2005. The event was held at the Oleai Sports Complex in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Detailed reports were given for the OAA.


2005 Micronesian Championships in Athletics, Medal summary
Medal winners and their results were published on the Athletics Weekly webpage. Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 8 March 2005, alongside a three-part referendum. As no political parties existed, all 23 candidates for the 10 available seats in Congress ran as Independents.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election
In the referendums voters were asked whether they approved of three proposed amendments to the constitution. These would remove the power of the Supreme Court to rule on land and water issues, give the states credit for their acts, and lift the ban on dual citizenship. The proposed amendments required a 75% majority in at least three of the four states. However, the Supreme Court proposal failed to pass the threshold in all four states, whilst only Chuuk State had over 75% in favour of the other two proposals.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Supreme Court
It is hereby proposed that Article XI, Section 6 of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia be amended and read as follows:


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Supreme Court
Section 6(a) The trial division of the Supreme Court has original and exclusive jurisdiction in cases affecting officials of foreign governments, disputes between states, admiralty or maritime cases, and in cases in which the national government is a party except where an interest in land is at issue. (b) The national courts, including the trial division of the Supreme Court, have concurrent original jurisdiction in cases arising(i) Under this Constitution(ii) Under national laws and treaties, and(iii)


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Supreme Court
From disputes between a state and a citizen of citizen of another state, between citizens of different states, and between a state or a citizen thereof and a foreign state, citizen, or subject, provided that the national courts shall not have jurisdiction under subparagraph (b) (iii) of this section in cases in which the ownership of land or water is at issue. (c) When jurisdiction is concurrent, the proper court may be prescribed by statute.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Supreme Court
DO YOU APPROVE OF THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION?


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, States
It is hereby proposed that a new Section 8 of Article XIII of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia be amended to read as follows:


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, States
Section 8. Full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the public acts, records and judicial proceedings of every other state. Congress may prescribe by statute the manner in which such acts, records and judicial proceedings shall be proved and the effect thereof.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, States
DO YOU APPROVE OF THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION?


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Dual citizenship
It is hereby proposed that Section 3 of Article III of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia be repealed.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Dual citizenship
Section 3. A citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia who is recognized as a citizen of another nation shall, within 3 years of his 18th birthday, or within 3 years of the effective date of this Constitution, whichever is later, register his intent to remain a citizen of the Federated States and renounce his citizenship of another nation. If he fails to comply with this Section, he becomes a national of the Federated States of Micronesia.


2005 Micronesian parliamentary election, Results, Referendums, Dual citizenship
DO YOU APPROVE OF THIS PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION?


2005 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2005 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place in May 2005. The top six regular season finishers met in the double-elimination tournament held at Stanley G. McKie Field at Joseph P. Hayden Jr. Park on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. This was the seventeenth Mid-American Conference postseason tournament to determine a champion. Top seed Miami won their third tournament championship to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2005 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The winner of each division claimed the top two seeds, while the next four finishers based on conference winning percentage only, regardless of division, participated in the tournament. The teams played double-elimination tournament. This was the eighth year of the six team tournament.


2005 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Paul Frietch was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Frietch played for Miami.


2005 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2005 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place between Saturday, March 5, 2006 and Tuesday, March 8, 2006 at the John Q. Hammons Arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


2005 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship game
On March 8, Oakland clinched their first-ever bid to the NCAA Tournament – it was their eighth year in Division I – by dispatching league favorite Oral Roberts in their conference tournament final. The final score was 61–60. Pierre Dukes was the hero, hitting a 3-pointer with 1.3 seconds left. It was his only shot of the second half. Afterwards, Ken Tutt's desperation shot at the buzzer banked high off the rim and Oakland celebrated.


2005 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship game
After the game, Dukes said, "When I got it, I looked at the clock and there wasn't enough time to get it back to him, so I figured I'd let it fly." He was referring to Rawle Marshall who passed it to him for the winning shot. Dukes was shooting 35 percent from 3-point range and almost didn't even make the team.


2005 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship game
Cortney Scott had 19 points for Oakland, while Marshall scored 18. Caleb Green had 13 points for the Oral Roberts Golden Eagles in the loss, while Tutt added 12. While the Golden Eagles did lead at half time, 28–27, the Golden Grizzlies went on a 17–6 run to begin the second half, and Oral Roberts had to claw their way back to have the lead in the closing seconds.


2005 Mid-Continent Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Championship game
The Golden Grizzlies started the season with seven consecutive losses and had the fourth-hardest non-conference strength of schedule at the end of the season. At 12–18, they had the worst record of any qualifier to the NCAA Tournament. They won the play-in game against Alabama A&M, then lost to North Carolina in the first round.


2005 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2005 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament began on April 28 and ended on May 1, 2005 at Cracker Jack Stadium in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It was a seven-team double elimination tournament. North Carolina A&T won the tournament, ending a streak of six straight titles by Bethune-Cookman. The Aggies claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2005 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The teams were seeded one through seven based on conference winning percentage only, with the top seed receiving a single bye while the second seed played the seventh seed, third seed played the sixth, and so on for first round matchups. The winners advanced in the winners' bracket, while first round losers played elimination games.


2005 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Outstanding Performer
Joe McIntyre was named Tournament Outstanding Performer. McIntyre was a designated hitter for North Carolina A&T.


2005 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team
The 2005 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University in the 2005 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Coming off a 5–6 season the year prior, the Blue Raiders finished with a 4–7 record and a 3–4 record in the Sun Belt Conference to tie for fourth in the conference standings. Following the season, fellow fourth-place FIU was sanctioned by the NCAA and forced to vacate their wins. Additionally, first-place Arkansas State was found guilty of NCAA violations and self-imposed punishments including the vacating of four of their six wins that season. Head coach Andy McCollum, as well as the offensive and defensive coordinators for the Blue Raiders, were fired following the conclusion of the 2005 season.


2005 Mieczysław Połukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces
The 24th Mieczysław Połukard Criterium of Polish Speedway League Aces was the 2005 version of the Mieczysław Połukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces. It took place on March 28 in the Polonia Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland.


2005 Mieczysław Połukard Criterium of Polish Speedway Leagues Aces, Heat details
m - exclusion for exceeding two minute time allowance • t - exclusion for touching the tapes • x - other exclusion • e - retired or mechanical failure • f - fell • ns - non-starter • nc - non-classify


2005 Milan Indoor
The 2005 ATP Milan Indoor was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the PalaLido in Milan, Italy and was part of the International Series of the 2005 ATP Tour. It was the 28th and last edition of the tournament ran from 31 January through 6 February 2005. Fifth-seeded Robin Söderling won the singles title.


2005 Milan Indoor, Finals, Doubles
Daniele Bracciali /  Giorgio Galimberti defeated  Arnaud Clément /  Jean-François Bachelot, 6–7(8–10), 7–6(8–6), 6–4


2005 Milan Indoor – Singles
Antony Dupuis was the defending champion but did not participate.


2005 Milan Indoor – Singles
Robin Söderling won the title defeating Radek Štěpánek 6–3, 6–7(2–7), 7–6(7–5) in the final.


2005 Milan Indoor – Singles, Seeds
A champion seed is indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which that seed was eliminated.


2005 Milan–San Remo
The 2005 Milan–San Remo was the 96th edition of the monument cycling classic race Milan–San Remo. It was held on 19 March 2005 and saw the first win of Italian rider Alessandro Petacchi in the Via Roma in a bunch sprint.


2005 Milwaukee Brewers season
The Milwaukee Brewers' 2005 season involved the Brewers' finishing third in the National League Central with a .500 record of 81 wins and 81 losses. This was the Brewers’ first non-losing season since 1992.


2005 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system
The Brewers' farm system consisted of six minor league affiliates in 2005. The Nashville Sounds won the Pacific Coast League championship.


2005 Minneapolis City Council election
The 2005 Minneapolis City Council elections were held on November 8, 2005 to elect the 13 members of the Minneapolis City Council for four-year terms.


2005 Minneapolis City Council election
The election saw the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) make a net gain of two seats, giving them a 12-to-1 majority in the Council. Both incumbent Green Party of Minnesota members lost their seats, though the party secured a pickup in Ward 2 with Cam Gordon narrowly winning against the DFL-endorsed candidate. The only independent on the Council lost their seat.


2005 Minneapolis City Council election, Electoral system
Members were elected from single-member districts. Municipal elections in Minnesota are nonpartisan, although candidates were able to identify with a political party on the ballot.


2005 Minneapolis municipal election
The 2005 Minneapolis municipal elections in the U.S. state of Minnesota held a scheduled primary election on 13 September and a general election on 8 November. Voters in the city elected:


2005 Minneapolis municipal election, Later developments
City Council Member Dean Zimmermann was accused by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of accepting bribes, see Minneapolis City Council. In December 2006, he was convicted and sentenced to prison. He was held in a Federal Prison in Colorado, but was released in summer 2008 to a halfway house in Minneapolis.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Glen Mason. Minnesota played its home games at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The most notable win of the season came as Minnesota defeated Michigan to win the Little Brown Jug for the first time since 1986.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Previous season
2004 was the eighth season under head coach Glen Mason. He led the team to a 7–5 record and an appearance in the Music City Bowl. The Gophers won their first five games before falling in five of their final seven contests.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Polls
The 2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team was not ranked in either the final Coaches' Poll or AP Poll.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Tulsa
The Gophers open the 2005 season in dominating fashion. Laurence Maroney rushed for 203 yards and 2 touchdowns. Bryan Cupito added 235 yards passing and 1 touchdown. Gary Russell had only six carries but two touchdowns, both coming in the fourth quarter.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Colorado State
The Gophers continued their high scoring ways to open the season, romping over Colorado State. Laurence Maroney had another big day, rushing for 133 yards and 2 touchdowns. Gary Russell had 2 touchdowns on seven carries. The Golden Gophers had fantastic average field position, starting at their own 40-yard line, but Tulsa averaged their starting at their own 21-yard line.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Florida Atlantic
The Golden Gophers won the third game of the season, defeating the Florida Atlantic Owls. Bryan Cupito passed 10 for 17 and 230 yards, with 2 touchdowns. Laurence Maroney and Gary Russell each scored two touchdowns on the day. The Minnesota rushing attack accumulated 349 yards on the ground. The Gophers once again had better field position than their opponents, as the Gophers were 16 yards better than the Owls, starting at the 37-yard line.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Purdue
The Golden Gophers won their fourth game of the season, winning in double overtime of Purdue. Laurence Maroney had another big day for the Golden Gophers, rushing for 217 yards. Bryan Cupito passed for 271 yards and three touchdowns. He also rushed for a two-point conversion in the waning time of the fourth quarter, giving a tying score that would eventually force overtime. Logan Payne caught a touchdown in the first overtime, and Gary Russell scored the go-ahead touchdown in the second overtime, giving Minnesota the victory.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Penn State raced out to a 20-point lead on the way to a 30-point victory over the Golden Gophers. Minnesota's normally potent ground game was held to 113 yards. Bryan Cupito passed for 174 yards on the day. The Golden Gophers turned the ball over twice, compared to no turnovers for the Nittany Lions. The Nittany Lions regained the Governor's Victory Bell for the first time since 1998.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan
The Minnesota Golden Gophers won the Little Brown Jug for the first time since 1986. Laurence Maroney rushed for 129 yards on the day. Gary Russell ran for 128 yards on the day, nearly half the yards coming from one rush with under two minutes left in the game. That rush set up a final field goal by Jason Giannini. It was the first win for the Golden Gophers under Glen Mason. It was Michigan's was third loss on the season.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Wisconsin
Coming off one of the biggest wins in recent memory, the Golden Gophers faced off against border rival, Wisconsin. The two teams traded the lead through the first half. With 3:27 left in the game, the Golden Gophers stretched the lead to 34–24. The Badgers then scored a touchdown, bringing the lead back down to a three-point gap. With 30 seconds left, the Badgers blocked a punt and recovered it for a touchdown. The Badgers kept Paul Bunyan's Axe for the second straight year.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Ohio State
Minnesota dropped the game to Ohio State, despite a solid performance from the Golden Gophers offense. Bryan Cupito had 26 completions on 35 attempts, and had 395 yards passing. Laurence Maroney rushed for 125 yards. The Golden Gophers out gained the Buckeyes by 130 yards on offense, but had several drives stall. Twice the ball was turned over on downs, once on a missed field goal, and the Gophers had one fumble.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Indiana
Minnesota's Gary Russell rushed for 188 yards and three touchdowns on the way to the first Gopher victory in Indiana since 1985. The Golden Gophers had 200 more yards of offensive production on the day. The Golden Gophers broke the game open, scoring four touchdowns. Gary Russell had three touchdowns on the day. Minnesota had no turnovers on the day. The Gophers were successful on seven of the twelve third-down attempts. The win made the Golden Gophers bowl eligible.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Michigan State
Amir Pinnix rushed for 206 yards as the Golden Gophers won, 41–18. Bryan Cupito only passed 13 times, but connected on eight of those passes, and two touchdowns. The Golden Gophers had only two drives on the game that didn't result in a score. In addition, the Gophers dominated the time of possession, having offensive control for 36 minutes in the game. The Spartans missed two field goal attempts on the game.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Iowa
In the 99th addition of the Minnesota-Iowa rivalry, the Golden Gophers dropped their fifth straight game to the Hawkeyes. Bryan Cupito passed for 315 yards, but had two interceptions and barely more than a 50 percent passing completion. Defensively, the Golden Gophers gave up 615 yards of offense. Two different Hawkeye running backs eclipsed 100 yards rushing, and Iowa's Drew Tate threw for 351 yards passing and four touchdowns. Iowa continued to retain the Floyd of Rosedale trophy.


2005 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Game summaries, Virginia
In the Golden Gophers' third appearance in the Music City Bowl, the Gophers dropped a close game against Virginia. Bryan Cupito passed for 263 yards and 4 touchdowns on the day. Running back Laurence Maroney rushed for 109 yards. The Gophers lost the lead for the first time with 1:08 remaining as they gave up a 39-yard field goal try. The loss was the Gophers' first loss in a bowl game since 2000.


2005 Minnesota Lynx season
The 2005 WNBA season was the seventh for the Minnesota Lynx. The Lynx missed the playoffs for the first time in three years. It also marked the final season for original franchise superstar Katie Smith, as she was traded to the Detroit Shock during the season.


2005 Minnesota Swarm season
The Minnesota Swarm are a lacrosse team based in Minnesota playing in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The 2005 season was the Swarm's inaugural season in the NLL.


2005 Minnesota Swarm season
The Swarm won the first game in franchise history, 12-11 on New Year's Day in Rochester, and after losing to Toronto and Buffalo, they beat the San Jose Stealth to even their record at 2-2. The Swarm then lost seven in a row, before finally winning their first home game. They finished the season 5-11 and last in the East.


2005 Minnesota Swarm season, Regular season, Conference standings
x: Clinched playoff berth; c: Clinched playoff berth by crossing over to another division; y: Clinched division; z: Clinched best regular season record; GP: Games PlayedW: Wins; L: Losses; GB: Games back; PCT: Win percentage; Home: Record at Home; Road: Record on the Road; GF: Goals scored; GA: Goals allowedDifferential: Difference between goals scored and allowed; GF/GP: Average number of goals scored per game; GA/GP: Average number of goals allowed per game


2005 Minnesota Swarm season, Player stats, Runners (Top 10)
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; LB = Loose Balls; PIM = Penalty Minutes


2005 Minnesota Swarm season, Player stats, Goaltenders
Note: GP = Games Played; MIN = Minutes; W = Wins; L = Losses; GA = Goals Against; Sv% = Save Percentage; GAA = Goals Against Average


2005 Minnesota Twins season
The 2005 Minnesota Twins Season was the franchise's 45th season playing in the Twin Cities and the 105th season in its history. The team was managed by Ron Gardenhire in his fourth year as the Twins' manager. They played their home games in the Metrodome.


2005 Minnesota Twins season
The Twins' final record was 83-79. They finished third in the American League Central division, behind the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians, and they missed the playoffs.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
The Twins got off to an average start. However, the Chicago White Sox had a fantastic start to the season. The Twins tried to stay close in the standings, but their offense was insufficient. The Twins (83-79) finished in 3rd place behind the Chicago White Sox and the Cleveland Indians, and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2001. The White Sox went on to earn the division title, their first trip to the playoffs since 2000, and their first World Series title since 1917.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Offense
Australian Glenn Williams came up for his cup of coffee and played in thirteen games from June 7 to June 28. He hit safely in every game, earning the Twins record for the longest hitting streak to start a career. When he was sent back down, he took with him 17 hits and a .425 batting average. He'd never return to the major leagues, but is working on an active 13-game hitting streak...


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Offense
Joe Mauer led the team with a .294 batting average, Justin Morneau led the team in runs batted in with 79, but Mauer hit only 9 home runs and 55 RBI, while Morneau hit only .239.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Offense
These problems were endemic to the team. No starter batted over .300 or hit over 25 home runs; however, Matthew LeCroy managed to hit 17 home runs in part-time duty.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Offense
The team's offensive struggles led to an uncertain lineup, with many defensive positions lacking regular starters. The team experimented by bringing in Seattle Mariners infielder Bret Boone to fill the void at second base, but he lasted for only 53 at-bats, hitting .170. The weak hitting led to hitting coach Scott Ullger being reassigned to third base coach after the season was over.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Pitching
Twins pitchers performed well in 2005. The staff was led by All-Star Johan Santana (16-7, 2.87 ERA, 238 strikeouts) and All-Star closer Joe Nathan (43 saves, 2.70 ERA). However, the weak hitting prevented any other starter from winning ten games. (Jesse Crain, in a stellar year out of the bullpen, did go 12-5.) The anemic offense also may have cost Santana a second Cy Young Award, as he finished with only sixteen victories.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Pitching
The top end of the rotation—Santana, Brad Radke, Kyle Lohse, and Carlos Silva—pitched well. Many bullpen pitchers had outstanding years, in particular Crain, Juan Rincón (2.45 ERA), J. C. Romero (3.47), and Matt Guerrier (3.39).


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Pitching
Silva in particular had what seemed to be a breakout year, walking only nine batters during the entire season to set a modern-era record (over 188.1 innings, a 0.43 rate). Silva induced 34 double plays to lead the majors, and won the May 20 game throwing just 74 pitches over nine innings. No pitcher has thrown as few pitches in a nine-inning win since 1957.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Pitching
In early May, the pitching staff was shaken when Major League Baseball announced that Juan Rincón would be suspended for ten days for violating the sport's policy on performance-enhancing drugs. Rincón pitched well both before and after this occurred.


2005 Minnesota Twins season, Defense
Like his predecessor Tom Kelly, Gardenhire emphasized baseball fundamentals like defense. Despite Hunter's injury, he still won a Gold Glove in center field. Joe Mauer established a reputation as an outstanding defensive catcher, with a .993 fielding percentage. Morneau, not known for his defense, surprised many with a .994 average at first. Luis Rivas was a solid defensive second baseman, but his offensive shortcomings became too much to bear, leading the team to experiment with Boone and Nick Punto at the position. In contrast to Rivas, Michael Cuddyer saw a majority of the time at third base. Jason Bartlett and Juan Castro split time at shortstop, with Castro being the superior defensive player. Shannon Stewart and Jacque Jones both had .985 fielding percentages in the corner outfield positions. Lew Ford saw time at all three outfield positions.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season
The 2005 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 45th in the National Football League, and Mike Tice's fourth and final season as head coach. The Vikings finished the season with a 9–7 record and missed the playoffs despite going 8–3 over the final 11 weeks. Quarterback Daunte Culpepper was injured after seven games, resulting in Brad Johnson taking over as starter. The loss of Culpepper and the departure of Randy Moss to the Oakland Raiders resulted in the Vikings dropping from 2nd in passing offense in 2004 to 20th in 2005.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season
During the team's bye week in week 5, a scandal arose surrounding an alleged sex party aboard a pair of boats on Lake Minnetonka.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason
In February 2005, Vikings owner Red McCombs agreed to sell the team to Arizona-based entrepreneur Reggie Fowler; however, Fowler was unable to prove his finances sound enough to complete the purchase and his application to buy the team was rejected by the league. He brought in various partners, including New York-based real estate developer Zygi Wilf, who took over as the lead owner, with Fowler as one of the minor partners. The deal to install Wilf as owner was concluded in May 2005.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The Vikings opened the season with five turnovers on the way to their first opening-day loss since 2002. Free agent signing Darren Sharper started off the scoring for the Vikings by returning an interception 88 yards for a touchdown, but the Buccaneers defense was able to limit the Vikings to 26 yards rushing and intercepted reigning Pro Bowl quarterback Daunte Culpepper three times, including two for cornerback Brian Kelly. By contrast, the Buccaneers' rookie running back Cadillac Williams managed 148 yards rushing in his first NFL game, capped off with a 71-yard touchdown run with less than two minutes left to seal the game for Tampa Bay.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 2: at Cincinnati Bengals
The Vikings' misfortunes continued in Week 2, losing 37–8 to the Cincinnati Bengals. Cornerback Fred Smoot was beaten by Chad Johnson on a 70-yard touchdown in the first minute of the game, with Carson Palmer adding two more touchdown passes in the first half to give the Bengals a 27–0 lead at halftime. The Bengals piled on 167 yards rushing, with wide receiver T. J. Houshmandzadeh adding a 16-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. Daunte Culpepper continued his early season struggles, throwing five interceptions, bringing his total to eight in the first two weeks. Culpepper did ensure the Vikings avoided the shutout by scoring on a five-yard touchdown run. The Vikings were again hampered by their rushing attack, being held to 77 yards rushing.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New Orleans Saints
In Week 3, the Vikings looked to turn their season around at home to the New Orleans Saints, who were suffering from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, which had devastated their city only a few weeks earlier. The Vikings started positively, forcing a fumble from the Saints' return man Aaron Stecker on the opening kickoff. On the first play from scrimmage, Daunte Culpepper found Travis Taylor for a 24-yard touchdown, and the Vikings did not look back. Culpepper threw two more first-half touchdown passes, and stayed mistake free.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. New Orleans Saints
The Vikings also found a running game, going for 146 yards, led by Mewelde Moore's 101 yards. Defensively, the Vikings held Aaron Brooks to just 12 completions on 32 pass attempts, intercepting him twice (Antoine Winfield and Keith Newman). Paul Edinger added four field goals for the Vikings in the victory.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 4: at Atlanta Falcons
After notching their first win of the season the week before, the Vikings returned to form in Atlanta the following week, losing 30–10 to the Falcons. The visitors sacked Daunte Culpepper nine times, and added two more interceptions to bring his total for the season to 10 through four games. The Falcons' rushing offense was almost unstoppable, going for 285 yards, with almost half of that total provided by Warrick Dunn (126 yards). For the second time in the season, the Vikings' only points of the game came in the fourth quarter, via a 16-yard pass from Culpepper to Troy Williamson.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Chicago Bears
Following a bye week marred by the "love boat" scandal, the Vikings returned to action with a trip to face the 1–3 Chicago Bears. The Vikings marched down the field on their opening drive, only to botch a fake field goal attempt from the 18-yard line. After trading several punts, the Vikings put together a 13-play drive that resulted in a 23-yard field goal by Paul Edinger, who was making his first return to Chicago, for whom he had played for the last five years.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 6: at Chicago Bears
However, those were to be the Vikings' only points of the game as they failed to get any further than the Bears' 30-yard line, while Daunte Culpepper added another two interceptions to his total for the season. The Bears' offense was limited by rookie quarterback Kyle Orton, who threw for 117 yards, but did find Desmond Clark for two touchdowns. The Bears were also held to 95 yards, led by 89 yards by Thomas Jones, who did find the end zone twice in the fourth quarter to close out the game.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Green Bay Packers
The Vikings hosted the Packers in Week 7 with the two teams propping up the NFC North with 1–4 records. After a scoreless first quarter, Brett Favre started to find success against the Vikings defense, leading the Packers on two-second-quarter touchdown drives in a row, culminating in touchdown passes to Donald Driver and Antonio Chatman. After the Chatman touchdown, Koren Robinson returned the ensuing kickoff 72 yards to the Packers' 30-yard line, only for Mewelde Moore to fumble on the Vikings' first play from scrimmage.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Green Bay Packers
Favre then led the Packers downfield, and set up a 53-yard Ryan Longwell field goal as time expired in the first half, giving the Packers a 17–0 lead. The Vikings mounted a comeback in the second half; starting with a field goal on their opening drive, the Vikings defense then forced a three-and-out, before Daunte Culpepper capped the next drive with a 27-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Robinson.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Green Bay Packers
After a missed field goal by Longwell, Paul Edinger made a field goal of his own before Culpepper again led the Vikings down the field, finding Mewelde Moore for a 14-yard touchdown to give the Vikings a 20–17 lead with three minutes left. Favre then led the Packers down the field, resulting in a 39-yard Ryan Longwell field goal, to tie the game with 28 seconds left. Daunte Culpepper then completed back-to-back passes to Mewelde Moore and Marcus Robinson to set up a game-winning 56-yard field goal by Edinger as time expired.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Carolina Panthers
The Vikings failed to build on their come-from-behind win, falling to a 38–13 loss to the Carolina Panthers in Week 8. The Panthers received the opening kickoff and mounted a 10-play drive, resulting in a 7-yard touchdown run by Stephen Davis. On the final play of the first quarter, Daunte Culpepper tore his ACL, MCL and PCL in a low tackle by Panthers cornerback Chris Gamble following an 18-yard run.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: at Carolina Panthers
Brad Johnson replaced Culpepper at quarterback, but he was unable to prevent the Panthers from increasing their lead in the first half, going into the halftime interval with the score at 24–0. The Vikings did find the end zone twice in the second half, first with a Mewelde Moore touchdown to bring the score to 24–7, then a five-yard touchdown reception by Marcus Robinson with two minutes to go; however, the Panthers scored twice themselves to nullify the Vikings' attempted comeback. Panthers receiver Steve Smith finished the day with 11 catches for 201 yards.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Detroit Lions
With Culpepper out for the rest of the season, Brad Johnson made his first start for the Vikings since week 2 of the 1998 season. After a defensively dominated first quarter resulting in only a Vikings field goal, Johnson found Michael Bennett for a five-yard touchdown in the second quarter. Joey Harrington then fumbled on a Brian Williams sack, leading to a touchdown run by Ciatrick Fason. Harrington then compounded the Lions' problems, throwing an interception to Antoine Winfield three plays later, leading to a 15-yard touchdown pass from Johnson to Nate Burleson, giving the Vikings a 24–0 lead.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 9: vs. Detroit Lions
The Lions added a touchdown before halftime on an Artose Pinner run. After a scoreless third quarter, Harrington found Marcus Pollard for a 23-yard touchdown on the first play of the fourth quarter, cutting the Vikings lead to 10. In an attempt to wind down the clock, the Vikings leant on their running game, rushing for 164 yards, including 106 yards by Michael Bennett. Darren Sharper sealed the victory for the Vikings, intercepting Harrington with 18 seconds left to give the Vikings their third victory of the season.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at New York Giants
In Week 10, the Vikings traveled to the Meadowlands seeking consecutive victories for the first time in the season against the 6–2 New York Giants. The Vikings were unable to capitalize on a fumble by Willie Ponder on the opening kickoff, as Paul Edinger missed a 40-yard field goal after the Vikings failed to earn a first down. After trading punts, Eli Manning was intercepted by Darren Sharper, only for Edinger to have a 32-yard field goal attempt blocked on the ensuing possession.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at New York Giants
After the scoreless first quarter, Sharper intercepted Manning a second time, this time returning it 92 yards for his second touchdown of the season. The Vikings offense was unable to add to the scoreboard in the first half, and a pair of field goals from Jay Feely meant the Vikings went into the halftime break with a 7–6 lead. To start the second half, Koren Robinson returned the opening kickoff 86 yards for a touchdown, giving the Vikings a 14–6 lead.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at New York Giants
The Giants responded immediately, with Manning finding Amani Toomer for a 23-yard touchdown pass to again reduce the Vikings' lead to a single point. The Vikings punted on their next possession, before forcing the Giants to do the same, with Mewelde Moore returning Jeff Feagles' kick 71 yards to give the Vikings a 21–13 lead; the score made the Vikings the first team in NFL history to return an interception, kickoff and punt for a touchdown in the same game.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: at New York Giants
Manning was intercepted two more times, including a third for Sharper; however, a non-existent Vikings offense (including 12 yards rushing on 21 carries) meant the Giants still had a chance. Following the two-minute warning, Manning put together a drive in which he completed 5 out of 7 pass attempts, leading to a three-yard touchdown run by Tiki Barber; Barber then ran in the two-point conversion to tie the scores. With 1:21 left, Johnson was sacked by Osi Umenyiora on the first play of the ensuing drive. After a Giants timeout trying to get the ball back, Johnson completed passes to Jermaine Wiggins, Marcus Robinson and Travis Taylor to set up Paul Edinger's 48-yard game-winning field goal, giving the Vikings consecutive wins for the first time in 2005.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Green Bay Packers
The Vikings were again on the road in Week 11, traveling to Green Bay for a Monday night contest against the 2–7 Packers, as the Vikings attempted to get back to .500 and reignite their hopes of making the playoffs; however, the Vikings fell behind in the first quarter with Brett Favre finding Donald Driver for a 15-yard touchdown.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Green Bay Packers
The Vikings leveled the scores late in the second quarter, with Dovonte Edwards returning an interception 51 yards for a touchdown, only for Favre to throw another touchdown pass to Driver, hitting him on a 53-yard touchdown with 28 seconds remaining, to give the Packers a 14–7 halftime lead. Late in the third quarter, the Vikings snapped a streak of eight consecutive quarters without an offensive touchdown, tying the game on a 1-yard touchdown by Ciatrick Fason at the end of a 14-play drive.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 11: at Green Bay Packers
A fourth-quarter Edinger field goal gave the Vikings the lead for the first time in the game, only to be matched by a Longwell field goal with three minutes remaining. The Packers then attempted a short kickoff to avoid a big return by Koren Robinson, only to give the Vikings strong field position. Mewelde Moore ran three times for 18 yards on the drive, giving him 122 yards for the game. Brad Johnson then found Robinson for 35 yards, bringing the Vikings to the Packers' 6-yard line. After three kneeldowns by Brad Johnson to run down the clock, Edinger connected on a 27-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Vikings their third consecutive victory.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 12: vs. Cleveland Browns
The Vikings returned home in Week 12 to face the 4–6 Cleveland Browns, seeking their fourth straight victory, and a return to a winning record. Brad Johnson recorded his best game of the season so far, throwing for 207 yards and three touchdowns, all to Marcus Robinson, while Mewelde Moore added a further 67 yards rushing. Defensively, Darren Sharper intercepted both Browns quarterbacks, Trent Dilfer and Charlie Frye, while Antoine Winfield also picked off Dilfer. The Vikings also sacked Dilfer five times, and held Cleveland to 78 yards rushing. The Browns did find the end zone with one minute remaining, with Dennis Northcutt catching a 9-yard touchdown pass from Dilfer.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions
The Vikings headed to Detroit in Week 13 seeking their fifth straight win, and an opportunity to firmly entrench themselves in the playoff race against the 4–7 Lions. The Vikings completely shut down Jeff Garcia and the Lions passing attack, holding him to 17 completions on 35 attempts for 126 yards. Offensively, Brad Johnson bettered his performance from the previous week against the Browns, completing 17 of 23 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns, including an 80-yard touchdown pass to Koren Robinson in the first quarter.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 13: at Detroit Lions
Michael Bennett also had a strong game, scoring touchdowns in the second and third quarters, finishing with 89 scrimmage yards. The Lions finally scored a touchdown in the fourth quarter, as an Artose Pinner rushing touchdown brought them to within five points with 7:42 remaining. After the Lions forced a Vikings punt, Corey Chavous intercepted Jeff Garcia on the goal line with a minute remaining, securing the Vikings fifth consecutive victory.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. St. Louis Rams
The Vikings returned home again in Week 14 to face a St. Louis Rams team quarterbacked by rookie Ryan Fitzpatrick making his second career start. The Vikings opened the scoring with a 13-yard end-around by Koren Robinson. Both teams added a pair of field goals each in the second quarter, resulting in the Vikings taking a 13–6 lead into the locker at halftime. The Rams capped their opening drive of the second half with a 14-yard touchdown run from Fitzpatrick to tie the contest.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. St. Louis Rams
The Vikings responded with a long pass from Brad Johnson to Marcus Robinson, setting up a 7-yard touchdown run by Michael Bennett. Fitzpatrick then threw five interceptions to four different Vikings (Brian Williams (2), Darren Sharper, Fred Smoot, and Antoine Winfield), as the Vikings increased their lead to 14 points on a touchdown run from Ciatrick Fason. There were no further points in the fourth quarter, with the Vikings holding on despite Johnson only throwing for 146 yards, to give them an 8–5 record on the season.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
The Vikings hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers in Week 15. With both teams holding an 8–5 record, victory was essential for their playoff chances. The Vikings had a strong defense and only allowed a 21-yard field goal by Jeff Reed on the Steelers' first possession; however, the offense struggled and had to be content with tying the scores with a Paul Edinger field goal late in the first quarter. Brad Johnson struggled in particular, and was intercepted by both Joey Porter and Deshea Townsend in the first half.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 15: vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
Ben Roethlisberger scored the game's only touchdown towards the end of the second quarter, running in from three yards. Johnson failed to complete a pass in the second half, and the Vikings' only first down came via a penalty. Reed added two more field goals for the Steelers in the third quarter, and rounded out the game's scoring with a fourth-quarter safety after tackling Michael Bennett in the end zone. The loss put the Vikings at 8–6 and on the brink of playoff elimination.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Baltimore Ravens
In Week 16, the Vikings traveled to Baltimore for a Christmas night game in the knowledge that a loss would eliminate them from playoff contention. Brad Johnson recovered from his poor performance against the Steelers and led the Vikings to a touchdown on their opening drive, finding Travis Taylor on a 13-yard pass for the score. Kyle Boller responded for the Ravens, leading them on a 17-play drive that culminated with a 6-yard touchdown reception for Todd Heap.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Baltimore Ravens
It took until late in the second quarter for the next points to arrive, with Johnson finding Jermaine Wiggins in the end zone on a 5-yard pass with 1:06 remaining in the half; however, Matt Stover cut the Vikings' lead to 14–10 going into the half with a 37-yard field goal as time expired.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 16: at Baltimore Ravens
The Vikings opened the second half with a 36-yard field goal from Paul Edinger, only for the Ravens to score with passes of 47 yards and 39 yards to Mark Clayton and Derrick Mason respectively, either side of another Edinger field goal to leave the Vikings trailing 24–20 with 14:47 remaining in the game. The Ravens' defense forced two consecutive punts and a Brad Johnson fumble, which resulted in two field goals by Stover to give the Ravens a 30–20 lead with just over a minute to play. Edinger cut the Ravens' lead to 7 points with 15 seconds remaining, but the Ravens recovered the ensuing onside kick, giving the Ravens the win, and eliminating the Vikings from the playoffs.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Chicago Bears
With the Vikings now out of the playoff race, they returned home for the final game of the season against the division champion Chicago Bears, who would go into the playoffs as the NFC's #2 seed. The Bears rested their now-healthy starting quarterback Rex Grossman, with Kyle Orton under center. Orton and running back Thomas Jones led the Bears to a field goal to start the scoring, before most prominent Bears players were removed from the game at the end of the first quarter.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Chicago Bears
With the Bears defense now missing the likes of Brian Urlacher, Lance Briggs and Charles Tillman, the Vikings scored 17 points in the second quarter, starting with a 54-yard Paul Edinger field goal, followed by a 2-yard run by Ciatrick Fason and a 17-yard pass from Brad Johnson to Travis Taylor. Johnson threw for 247 yards and two touchdowns in the game, with Mewelde Moore adding 101 yards from scrimmage. Moore added another touchdown for the Vikings late in the third quarter, followed by another Edinger field goal from 27 yards to start the fourth.


2005 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Chicago Bears
The Bears found the end zone in the fourth quarter on a 4-yard touchdown pass from Jeff Blake to Justin Gage. The Vikings then capped the scoring with a 61-yard touchdown run from Michael Bennett, giving Minnesota a 34–10 win, securing a winning season for the Vikings. Defensively, the Vikings held the Bears to 97 yards passing, with Kevin Williams recording two sacks. Despite the team finishing with a winning record, owner Zygi Wilf announced the dismissal of head coach Mike Tice only a few hours after the game.


2005 Minnesota state government shutdown
The 2005 Minnesota state government shutdown was a government shutdown affecting the U.S. state of Minnesota, the first in the history of the state. The shutdown was the result of a fiscal dispute between the Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty and House majority, and the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) majority in the state Senate, that was not resolved by the constitutional deadline on June 30. The Republicans and the DFL disagreed over how much would be spent on state healthcare programs and public schools, and what sources of revenue would be used for this funding.


2005 Minnesota state government shutdown
During the shutdown, many non-essential state government programs were closed, and about 8,900 state employees were furloughed. The shutdown lasted nine days, until the legislature passed, and the governor signed, a 'lights-on' temporary authorization of spending, followed by a compromise budget agreement. In 2011, there was another government shutdown lasting 20 days.


2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team
The 2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team won the SEC Tournament and placed second at the Miami Regional at the 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team
Ron Polk was the coach of the Bulldogs, in his 26th year.


2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Regular season
The Bulldogs closed out the regular season with a 36-20 record and an SEC record of 13-16.


2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, SEC Tournament
The Bulldogs defeated LSU, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Ole Miss en route to their 5th SEC Tournament victory.


2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, NCAA tournament
The Bulldogs were the 2 seed in the Miami regional, but lost twice to Miami and were eliminated.


2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team
The 2005 Mississippi State Bulldogs football team represented Mississippi State University during the 2005 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's head coach was Sylvester Croom. The Bulldogs played their home games in 2005 at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Mississippi


2005 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team
The 2005 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils football team represented Mississippi Valley State University during the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season.


2005 Missouri Tigers football team
The 2005 Missouri Tigers football team represented the University of Missouri during the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team finished with a 7–5 record, including 4–4 in Big 12 Conference play. The season culminated with a win over South Carolina in the Independence Bowl. The team led by head coach Gary Pinkel.


2005 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2005 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was played from March 4-7, 2005 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis, Missouri at the conclusion of the 2004–2005 regular season. The Creighton Bluejays won their 9th MVC Tournament title to earn an automatic bid to the 2005 NCAA Tournament.


2005 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season
The 2005 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season was the 15th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference.


2005 Missouri Valley Conference men's soccer season
The 2005 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was hosted by Bradley and won by Creighton.


2005 Miyagi earthquake
The 2005 Miyagi earthquake struck the east coast of the Japanese island of Honshū at 11.46 am (02:46 UTC) on August 16, causing casualties, building collapses and power outages. The event registered 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale.


2005 Miyagi earthquake, Earthquake characteristics
The earthquake occurred on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, and affected Japan's northeastern coast. It triggered a tsunami warning, and buildings shook 200 miles away in the capital, Tokyo. It was initially estimated to have a moment magnitude of 6.8, and the United States Geological Survey later declared it as a 7.2.


2005 Miyagi earthquake, Damage and casualties
A tsunami warning was initially raised by the Japan Meteorological Agency, but was lifted after only two small waves several centimeters high hit shore. Casualties included those killed because of a pool roof collapse in Sendai city, Miyagi prefecture. Initial reports indicated 80 people were injured, but it was later reported by state broadcaster NHK that one person was seriously hurt and thirteen were slightly injured. Seventeen thousand people lost power.


2005 Miyagi earthquake, Damage and casualties
Twenty percent of the world's earthquakes are centered on Japan. The Japanese have been developing systems for early warning of earthquakes. For people of the city of Sendai who were testing the new earthquake warning system, they received a warning of the earthquake from the Meteorological Agency 16 seconds before it reached the city, providing time to take cover. People in Tokyo received a message one minute before it hit. Such technology has since become much more popular and this quake is credited for that, since it was 60 miles off the coast of Japan and there was time for a warning.


2005 Miyagi earthquake, Aftermath
Business resumed within a day. Japan's Earthquake Research committee said that the earthquake was not the big one that was predicted to strike in the next 30 years. Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant was shut down, with reactor-1 restarting Jan 2006, 2 on March 2006, 3 in 2007.


2005 Miyagi gubernatorial election
Miyagi prefecture held a gubernatorial election on October 23, 2005. The LDP-backed candidate Yoshihiro Murai won.


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival
The 2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival (MKMF) was the seventh of the annual music awards in Seoul, South Korea that took place on November 27, 2005 at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena.


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival, Background
The award-giving body continued to use the name "M.net Korean Music Festival" (MKMF) for the seventh consecutive time, and the grand awards (or daesang) were still the Best Popular Music Video and Music Video of the Year. For the first time, the event took place at the Olympic Gymnastics Arena with Shin Dong-yup as a returning host and Kim Ah-joong as his co-host.


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival, Background
This marked was the last year that the two daesang awards were given, lasting up to seven years. The categories for Best New Male and Female Artist were joined together as Best New Artist, while Music Video Acting award was added this year. A total of 11 Special Awards were handed, on the other hand, including the yearly Overseas Viewers' Award.


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival, Background
There were other notable guests on the event besides the presenters and performers, including the silhouette dancer Hyoyeon, who debuted as a Girls' Generation member later on, as well as the six MNet characters 보, 쳇, 섭리, 병, 구, and 371.


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival, Background
One notable performance during the event was when Clon member Kang Won Rae, who met an accident in 2000, stood up from his wheelchair and danced during their dance medley performance.


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival, Multiple awards, Artist(s) with multiple wins
The following artist(s) received two or more wins (excluding the special awards):


2005 Mnet Km Music Video Festival, Presenters and performers
The following individuals and groups, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.


2005 Molde FK season
The 2005 season was Molde's 30th season in the top flight of Norwegian football. In Tippeligaen they finished 12th and played off against Moss to avoid relegation.


2005 Molde FK season
Molde won the Norwegian Cup. On 6 November they won the Cup Final against Lillestrøm. The final score was 4–2 after extra time.


2005 Molde FK season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2005 Moldovan parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Moldova on 6 March 2005. The result was a victory for the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM), which won 56 of the 101 seats.


2005 Moldovan parliamentary election, Electoral system
The Parliament was elected by proportional representation in a single national constituency. In 2002 the electoral law was amended to change the electoral threshold, which had previously been at 3% for independent candidates and 6% for political parties and electoral blocs. For electoral blocs of two parties it was raised to 9%, and for blocs of three or more, it was raised to 12%.


2005 Moldovan presidential election
An indirect presidential election was held in Moldova on 4 April 2005. In the parliamentary elections in March 2005, the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) received 46.1% of the vote and won 56 seats in the 101-member Parliament — more than enough for the 51-vote minimum required to remain in government, but short of the 61 votes necessary to elect a president. However, President Voronin received the necessary support from the Christian Democratic People's Party, the Democratic and Social Liberal factions, after he promised to deliver on needed reforms and Euro-Atlantic integration for the country.


2005 Moldovan presidential election
(The latter two factions broke away from the Electoral Bloc “Moldova Democrată” following the election, leaving the Our Moldova Alliance (AMN) of the former Mayor of Chişinău Serafim Urechean as the second-largest party in Parliament, with 26 seats). Voronin was re-elected with 75 votes; another candidate, Gheorghe Duca, received one vote, and two votes were invalid.


2005 Molson Indy Montreal
The 2005 Molson Indy Montreal was the tenth round of the 2005 Champ Car season, held on August 28, 2005 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Sébastien Bourdais was the polesitter and Oriol Servià won the race. It was Servià's first victory in major American open wheel competition and remains his only win.


2005 Molson Indy Toronto
The 2005 Molson Indy Toronto was the sixth round of the 2005 Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season, held on July 10, 2005 on the streets of Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sébastien Bourdais was the pole sitter and Justin Wilson won the race. It was the first American open wheel victory for the British driver. Sébastien Bourdais took the season points lead by finishing fifth and would end up keeping the points lead for the remainder of the season.


2005 Monaco GP2 Series round
The 2005 Monaco GP2 round was a GP2 Series motor race held on 21 May 2005 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the third race of the 2005 GP2 Series season. The race was used to support the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix.


2005 Monaco GP2 Series round
There was only one race, held on Saturday. Polesitter Heikki Kovalainen finished fifth after an unsuccessful pit-stop, but was able to set the fastest lap. Irishman Adam Carroll, who started third, won the race by a margin of 0.657 seconds from Gianmaria Bruni. Nico Rosberg finished third, to score his first GP2 podium finish.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix
The 2005 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the Formula 1 Grand Prix de Monaco 2005) was a Formula One motor race held on 22 May 2005 at the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo, Monaco. It was the sixth race of the 2005 Formula One World Championship, and the 63rd running of the Monaco Grand Prix.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix
The 78-lap race was won from pole position by Finnish driver Kimi Räikkönen, driving a McLaren-Mercedes. German Nick Heidfeld finished second in a Williams-BMW with his teammate, Australian Mark Webber, achieving his first F1 podium finish in third. Drivers' Championship leader, Spaniard Fernando Alonso, finished fourth in his Renault.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix
This was the first Monaco Grand Prix held after the death of Prince Rainier III the previous month. For this reason, the Monegasque princely family did not attend the race.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Friday drivers
The bottom six teams in the 2004 Constructors' Championship were entitled to run a third car in free practice on Friday. These drivers drove on Friday but did not compete in qualifying or the race.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Practice
In practice, Christijan Albers lost his car out coming from turn 4 and crashed. Juan Pablo Montoya, Jacques Villeneuve, David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher crashed as they were coming up high from Beau Rivage. Montoya was judged to be the cause of this incident and thus was forced to start the race from the back of the grid.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
Polesitter Kimi Räikkönen led the field from the start of the race, and though he was at first closely followed by Fernando Alonso, he was more than five seconds ahead by the twentieth lap. Meanwhile, Narain Karthikeyan retired with a hydraulic failure. The race progressed otherwise uneventfully, with Fernando Alonso followed by Giancarlo Fisichella, Jarno Trulli, and Mark Webber, until the twenty-third lap, when Christijan Albers spun his Minardi into a wall at Mirabeau, blocking about two-thirds of the width of the track.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
David Coulthard, arriving behind him, swerved and successfully stopped his Red Bull without damage; however, Michael Schumacher plowed into Coulthard, breaking off his own nosecone and damaging the Red Bull's suspension beyond repair. As more drivers reached the blocked turn, the Safety Car was deployed so that marshals could remove Albers' car.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
Both Renault drivers pitted immediately, but Räikkönen - acting on instructions from McLaren chief strategist Neil Martin - continued on in what was to prove a winning move. Though this seemingly put Räikkönen in a bad spot, as all of his close competitors had pitted, he fought back with a series of brilliant laps that would give him a 34.7-second lead by the time he pitted on lap 42. Alonso, whose car was substantially slower as it was full of fuel, and whose rear tyres were wearing rapidly, was unable to catch up, and Räikkönen, after pitting, returned to the track still 13 seconds ahead. He would go on to win the race having led every lap of it.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
Nick Heidfeld worked his way up from sixth grid position, passing his own teammate in the pits after Williams called him in a lap earlier whilst Alonso was badly holding the two Williams drivers up. After Heidfeld's stop, a superb overtaking manoeuvre into the Nouvelle chicane put him ahead of Alonso. Webber tried to follow suit a lap later, but on the first attempt Alonso cut the corner and stayed in front.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
On the second attempt Alonso cut the corner again, this time clearly intentionally, but Webber eventually succeeded in overtaking him and claiming his first career podium in Formula One and scoring Williams last double podium finish until the 2014 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix over nine years later. Alonso straggled into fourth, his rear tyres almost entirely bald. Montoya advanced from sixteenth on the grid to an eventual fifth, finishing on Alonso's tail, followed by Michael and Ralf Schumacher, who crossed the line almost side-by-side.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix, Report, Race
Both Red Bull Racing cars ran with the Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith livery and, for this race, the Red Bull Racing pit crew dressed up as Imperial Stormtroopers. It didn't help the team's fortunes, as this was the first race where they failed to score points.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three
The 2005 Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three was a support race for the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix held on the Circuit de Monaco in Monte Carlo. It was the first time Formula Three cars had raced at Monaco since 1997, and remains the last to date. The race was the fourth round of 2005 Formula Three Euroseries. The first race was held on May 20, and the second race held on the May 21.


2005 Monaco Grand Prix Formula Three, Race 2 Results
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2005 Mong shootings
The 2005 Mong shooting occurred on 7 October 2005 in Mong in the Mandi Bahauddin District, Punjab, Pakistan. Eight members of the minority Ahmadiyya Muslim Community were killed inside a mosque as worshipers were performing Salat.


2005 Mong shootings, Background
The Ahmadiyya movement was started in 1889 and follows the teachings of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad who they believe was sent by God as a prophet and the Promised Messiah and Imam Mehdi prophesied in Islam "to end religious wars, condemn bloodshed and re-institute morality, justice and peace." It is estimated there are between 3 – 4 million Ahmadis in Pakistan.


2005 Mong shootings, Background
The Ahmadiyya Muslims have previously been targeted by Sunni groups, while they have also suffered discrimination in Pakistan in the past, most significantly during the Lahore riots of 1953. They were declared non-Muslim in Pakistan in 1973 by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and were legally banned from identifying themselves as such in 1984 during General Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization as per Ordinance XX, despite Ahmadis calling themselves Muslim and following the rituals of Islam.


2005 Mong shootings, Background
In August 2005, authorities closed down the offices of 16 publications run by followers of the sect in a Punjab city for "propagation of offensive material".


2005 Mong shootings, Attack
Three men riding on a motorcycle holding guns, came into the village of Mong in Mandi Bauddin on Friday morning. Two of the perpetrators went inside the mosque and started firing immediately, killing eight people. The attackers managed to escape after the attack.


2005 Mong shootings, Response
According to what a witness told Ahmadi author Qasim Rahid, police showed up several hours after the killing and "made no effort" to find the killers. Amnesty International stated that:


2005 Mong shootings, Response
Police investigations of previous targeted killings of Ahmadis in Pakistan have been slow or have not taken place at all. In many cases the perpetrators have not been brought to justice. Amnesty International believes that the government’s consistent failure to investigate attacks and killings of members of religious minorities fails to discourage further human rights abuses against such groups."


2005 Mong shootings, Response
"We condemn this attack. Any act of violence in which innocent people are killed should be condemned."


2005 Mong shootings, Response
Human Rights group stated that Ahmadis have constantly suffered persecution in Pakistan whereas Shahbaz Bhatti, head of the All Pakistan Minorities Alliance, said that the government had failed to protect minorities.


2005 Mongolian Premier League
The 2005 Mongolian National Championship was the thirty-eighth recorded edition of top flight football in Mongolia and the tenth season of the Mongolian Premier League, which took over as the highest level of competition in the country from the previous Mongolian National Championship. Khoromkhon were champions, their first title, Khangarid were  runners up, with  Mazaalai in third place.


2005 Mongolian Premier League, Format
The competition was played in two stages: firstly a series of first round matches of indeterminate structure. Following this, four of the five competing teams qualified for the semi-final play offs, the winners of which advanced to a one off final, with the losers contesting a third place match.


2005 Mongolian Premier League, Format, Playoffs
Kharaatsai were eliminated in the regular stage, the other four participants proceeded to the playoff stage.


2005 Mongolian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Mongolia on 22 May 2005. The result was a victory for Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP), who received over half of the vote.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Background
In the 1997 presidential election the chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, Natsagiin Bagabandi was elected president. He was re-elected in 2001 but term limits meant he could not stand again in 2005. After the 2004 parliamentary elections the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the Democratic Party were forced to form a coalition government after a close result.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Candidates
Four candidates stood in the 2005 presidential election. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party candidate was the former Prime Minister and current speaker of the parliament of Mongolia Nambaryn Enkhbayar. Enkhbayar had been chairman of the MPRP since 1997 and was regarded as the clear favourite in the election. He said that he would increase foreign investment and continue to liberalise the economy to try and address poverty in Mongolia.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Candidates
His main rival was Mendsaikhany Enkhsaikhan of the Democratic party. He got support from anti-communists and called for lower taxes for business and subsidies for poorer families. However he was disadvantaged by divisions within the Democratic party.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Candidates
The other two candidates were Bazarsad Jargalsaikhan of the Mongolian Republican Party and Badarchiin Erdenebat of the Motherland Party. Jargalsaikhan was one of richest people in Mongolia and said that he could put his business skills to use as President. Erdenebat called for a referendum to be held to increase the powers of the President.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Campaign
About a million of Mongolia's population were eligible to vote in the election with 3,800 polling stations across Mongolia. If no candidate secured over half of the votes in the first round of the election then a run-off would be held on 5 June between the top two candidates. The campaign for the first round officially began on 7 April 2005.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Campaign
A few days before the election 3 of the 4 candidates called on the General Election Committee to resign alleging that the election was not being run cleanly. The outgoing President said that the committee should do everything possible to ensure the election was fair. Before the election there were protests in the capital Ulan Bator calling for a more open electoral system and protesting against alleged corruption. However international election monitors reported that they did not find any irregularities in the election.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Campaign
Voting began at 7am and voter turnout was high as usual in Mongolia. Many voters turned out in traditional Mongolian costumes, some on horseback, while elsewhere poll workers took ballot boxes to nomadic Mongols who were unable to get to polling stations.


2005 Mongolian presidential election, Results
Enkhbayer secured more than 50% of the votes thus winning an outright victory in the first round and avoiding the need for a run-off. After the results were announced Enkhsaikhan called Enkhbayar to congratulate him on his victory and they discussed working together. Enkhbayar was inaugurated as president on 24 June and promised to fulfill the pledges that he had made during the campaign.


2005 Monmouth Hawks football team
The 2005 Monmouth Hawks football team represented Monmouth University in the 2005 NCAA Division I FCS football season as a member of the Northeast Conference (NEC). The Hawks were led by 13th-year head coach Kevin Callahan and played their home games at Kessler Field. They finished the season 6–4 overall and 4–3 in NEC play to tie for second place.


2005 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election
The 2005 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election took place on November 6, 2005, to elect a mayor and councillors in Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec. Incumbent mayor Roger Lapointe was re-elected to another term without opposition.


2005 Mont-Saint-Michel municipal election, Results
Source: , Affaires municipales, Régions et Occupation du territoire Québec.


2005 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 2005 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season. The Grizzlies were led by third-year head coach Bobby Hauck and played their home games on campus at Washington–Grizzly Stadium in  Missoula.


2005 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 2005 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State University in the Big Sky Conference during the 2005 NCAA Division I-AA football season. In their sixth season under head coach Mike Kramer, the Bobcats compiled a 7–4 record (5–2 against Big Sky opponents), finished in a three-way tie for the Big Sky championship with Eastern Washington and Montana, but did not received a bid to the NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship playoffs. Montana State ranked No. 18 in final I-AA poll by The Sports Network.


2005 Monte Carlo Masters
The 2005 Monte Carlo Masters was a men's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 99th edition of the event and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2005 ATP Tour. It took place at the Monte Carlo Country Club in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France from 11 April through 17 April 2005. The men's singles was headlined by world No. 1 Roger Federer, Marat Safin and Tim Henman. Rafael Nadal won the singles title.


2005 Monte Carlo Masters, Finals, Doubles
Leander Paes /  Nenad Zimonjić defeated  Bob Bryan /  Mike Bryan, walkover


2005 Monte Carlo Masters – Doubles
Tim Henman and Nenad Zimonjić were the defending champions. They were both present but did not compete together. Henman partnered with Yves Allegro and Zimonjić with Leander Paes.


2005 Monte Carlo Masters – Doubles
Leander Paes and Nenad Zimonjić won in the finals by a walkover against Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan


2005 Monte Carlo Masters – Singles
Rafael Nadal defeated the defending champion Guillermo Coria in the final, 6–3, 6–1, 0–6, 7–5 to win the Singles title at the 2005 Monte Carlo Masters. It was his first Masters Series title, and the first of his eight consecutive titles at the Monte Carlo Masters.


2005 Monte Carlo Rally
The 73ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo (73rd Monte-Carlo Rally), the first round of the 2005 World Rally Championship season took place between January 21 and 23, 2005.


2005 Montedio Yamagata season
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2005 Monterey Sports Car Championships
The 2005 Monterey Sports Car Championships was the final race for the 2005 American Le Mans Series season held at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. It took place on October 16, 2005.


2005 Monterey Sports Car Championships
This race saw the competition debut of the new Porsche RS Spyder, the first Porsche prototype in approximately seven years.


2005 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Official results
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2005 Montreal Alouettes season
The 2005 Montreal Alouettes finished second place in the East Division with a 10–8 record. This was a disappointing season, by Alouettes standards, but they made it to the Grey Cup the hard way. They hosted the East Semi-Final and defeated the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Olympic Stadium, 30–14. They then traveled to Toronto to face the Argonauts at the Skydome, and they won 33–17, to advance to the Grey Cup. After a hard fought game they lost to the Edmonton Eskimos, 38–35 in what was only the second ever Grey Cup to be won in overtime.


2005 Montreal municipal election
The 2005 Montreal municipal election was held on November 6, 2005, to elect a city mayor, borough mayors, city councillors, and borough councillors in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the contest for mayor of Montreal, Gérald Tremblay was elected to a second term over former mayor Pierre Bourque.


2005 Monza GP2 Series round
The 2005 Monza GP2 Series round was a GP2 Series motor race held on September 3 and 4, 2005 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza in Monza, Italy. It was the tenth round of the 2005 GP2 Series season. The race weekend supported the 2005 Italian Grand Prix.


2005 Moorilla Hobart International
The 2005 Moorilla Hobart International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts and which was part of the Tier V category of the 2005 WTA Tour. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and took place at the Hobart International Tennis Centre in Hobart, Australia from 10 January until 14 January 2005. Unseeded Zheng Jie won the singles title and earned $16,000 first-prize money.


2005 Moorilla Hobart International, Finals, Doubles
Yan Zi /  Zheng Jie defeated  Anabel Medina Garrigues /  Dinara Safina 6–4, 7–5


2005 Moorilla Hobart International – Doubles
Shinobu Asagoe and Seiko Okamoto were the defending champions, but did not participate.


2005 Moorilla Hobart International – Singles
Amy Frazier was the defending champion, but lost in the first round to Li Na in an upset.


2005 Moorilla Hobart International – Singles
Zheng Jie won the title by defeating Gisela Dulko 6–2, 6–0 in the final.


2005 Mosconi Cup
The 2005 Mosconi Cup, the 12th edition of the annual nine-ball pool competition between teams representing Europe and the United States, took place 15–18 December 2005 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. A shot clock was used for the first time in the events history.


2005 Mosconi Cup
Team USA won the Mosconi Cup by defeating Team Europe 11–6.


2005 Moscow City Duma election
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2005 Moscow City Duma election
The Moscow legislative election of 2005 were held December 4 of that year to the fourth convocation of the Moscow City Duma. On party lists were elected 18 of the 35 deputies, 17 deputies were in single-member constituencies. To get into the City Duma parties need to overcome the 10% threshold. The term of office of the new City Duma was four years.


2005 Moscow City Duma election, Results
First place in the voting by party lists took United Russia, which received 47.25% of the vote (13 seats). 10-percent barrier to overcome two other parties, the Communist Party (16.75%, 4 seats) and United Democrats who participated in the elections under the banner of Yabloko (11.11%, 3 mandates).


2005 Moscow City Duma election, Results
United Russia also won all 15 single-member districts. Thus, the party won 28 seats out of 35. List of United Russia party headed by the mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, who helped them to improve the results in Moscow compared to the 2003 Duma elections (in December 2003 United Russia received 34.43% of the vote).


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a military parade which took place in Red Square in Moscow on 9 May 2005 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The parade was inspected by the Minister of Defence Sergei Ivanov and it was commanded by Moscow Military District Commander General of the Army Ivan Efremov. Music was performed by the Massed Bands of the Moscow Garrison directed by Colonel Valery Khalilov on his 3rd national parade, the first to include 4 international marching bands.


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade
After the inspection of the troops, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin gave his 6th-holiday address to the nation. More than 150 foreign dignitaries (included 50 heads of state) were presented. Among them were Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, UNESCO Director General Koichiro Matsuura, President of the United States George W. Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Junichirō Koizumi, French President Jacques Chirac, Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov. It was the largest parade in the history of Russia, and one of the largest in the world's history.


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade
This was the last time veterans took part directly as participants. This time through, reenacting the motorized infantry of the original 1945 parade mobile column, many veterans of the fronts rode in the very trucks which carried infantry to the front lines of the war, arranged accordingly by the fronts they took part at war's end. Veterans from nations such as North Korea and Turkmenistan took part in the parade alongside their Russian counterparts.


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade, Troops participating in the parade
Following the parade commander's car the parade marched past the saluting grandstand in the following order,


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Parade, Music
The music and marches were played by the Military Band of the Armed Forces of Russia under the direction of Colonel Valery Khalilov


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Dignitaries in attendance
The Victory Day parade drew many international statesman to the Russian capital in the days leading up to 9 May. According to the Russian government, top leaders from 56 countries were invited to join Putin in the 2005 parade. In total, about 150 countries were represented at the parade. It was the largest gathering of world leaders in Russian history. The parade was the first one to be attended by world leaders since the 1995 parade (which attracts 57 countries).


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Dignitaries in attendance
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder brought with him a group of Wehrmacht veterans, whom Vladimir Putin personally approached after a military parade on Red Square. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi also arrived with Italian veterans.


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Dignitaries in attendance, Cancelled attendees
President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, as well as two Presidents of Baltic nations, did not attend despite being invited. Saakashvili justified his refusal to attend by saying that "there was nothing much to celebrate in Moscow", instead hosting a ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Tbilisi, and hosting President Bush in the Georgian capital the following day. Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus and Estonian President Arnold Rüütel jointly announced their non-participation in the parade on 7 March. They were all represented by lower-level politicians.


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Dignitaries in attendance, Cancelled attendees
In addition to that, a number of ambassadors and war veterans were presented as private attendees. British Prime Minister Tony Blair was unable to attend due to an emergency engagement followed the 2005 United Kingdom general election. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko was also invited, however instead chose to preside over the Victory Day Parade on Minsk's Victors Avenue.


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin's Victory Day Parade speech


2005 Moscow Victory Day Parade, Gallery
Heads of state (from left to right) : Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush.


2005 Moscow power blackouts
From 10:00 25 May 2005 to 16:00 26 May 2005, Moscow's power supplies were the centre of a major incident, which resulted in the supply being outed for several hours in many of City of Moscow districts, as well as Moscow, Tula, Kaluga and Ryazan provinces. Some tens of thousands of people were trapped in stranded underground trains in the Moscow Metro and in elevators, railway signaling was put out of action and many commercial and governmental organisations were paralysed.