2012 Michigan ballot proposals, Proposal 2
Proposal 2 was a proposed constitutional amendment which would have granted public and private employees the constitutional right to organize and bargain collectively through labor unions, invalidated existing or future state or local laws that limited the ability to join unions and bargain collectively, and to negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements, including employees’ financial support of their labor unions, overridden state laws that regulate hours and conditions of employment to the extent that those laws conflict with collective bargaining agreements, and defined "employer" as a person or entity employing one or more employees. Laws may still have been enacted to prohibit public employees from striking. The proposal failed 57%-43%.


2012 Michigan ballot proposals, Proposal 3
Proposal 3 was a proposed constitutional amendment which would have required electric utilities to provide at least 25% of their annual retail sales of electricity from renewable energy sources, which are wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower, by 2025, limited to not more than 1% per year electric utility rate increases charged to consumers only to achieve compliance with the renewable energy standard, allowed annual extensions of the deadline to meet the 25% standard in order to prevent rate increases over the 1% limit, and required the Legislature to enact additional laws to encourage the use of Michigan made equipment and employment of Michigan residents.


2012 Michigan ballot proposals, Proposal 4
Proposal 4 was a proposed constitutional amendment which would have allowed in-home care workers to bargain collectively with the Michigan Quality Home Care Council (MQHCC), continued the current exclusive representative of in-home care workers until modified in accordance with labor laws, require MQHCC to provide training for in-home care workers, create a registry of workers who pass background checks, and provide financial services to patients to manage the cost of in-home care, preserved patients' rights to hire in-home care workers who are not referred from the MQHCC registry who are bargaining unit members, and authorized the MQHCC to set minimum compensation standards and terms and conditions ofemployment.


2012 Michigan ballot proposals, Proposal 5
Proposal 5 was a proposed constitutional amendment which would have required a 2/3 majority vote of the State House and the State Senate, or a statewide vote of the people at a November election, in order for the State of Michigan to impose new or additional taxes on taxpayers or expand the base of taxation or increasing the rate of taxation. This section was in no way to be construed to limit or modify tax limitations otherwise created in the Constitution.


2012 Michigan ballot proposals, Proposal 6
Proposal 6 was a proposed constitutional amendment which would have required the approval of a majority of voters at a statewide election and in each municipality where "new international bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles" are to be located before the State of Michigan may expend state funds or resources for acquiring land, designing, soliciting bids for, constructing, financing, or promoting new international bridges or tunnels, and created a definition of "new international bridges or tunnels for motor vehicles" that means, "anybridge or tunnel which is not open to the public and serving traffic as of January 1, 2012."


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election
Michigan's 11th congressional district election was held on November 6, 2012, for a seat in the 113th United States Congress alongside a presidential election, other elections to the United States House of Representatives and elections for class I of the United States Senate. In Michigan, all of the state's 14 Congressional seats will be at stake, as well Michigan's junior United States Senator Debbie Stabenow is running for re-election. Additionally, all 110 seats in the Michigan House of Representatives are at stake.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election
In reapportionment done following the 2010 United States Census, the district was redrawn to favor then Congressman Thaddeus McCotter.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election
The election was held alongside a special election to fill a vacancy in Michigan's 11th congressional district caused by the July 6, 2012 resignation of Republican member of the United States House of Representatives Thaddeus McCotter. The primary for the special election was held on September 5, 2012.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election, Background
After a failed, short-lived presidential campaign, McCotter opted to run for 6th term in the House. On May 25, 2012, it was announced that McCotter had fallen short of the required 1,000 signatures to appear on the ballot for the August 7 GOP primary.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election, Background
On May 29, 2012, McCotter announced his intentions to seek the GOP nomination as write-in candidate. McCotter ended his write-in campaign shortly after on June 2, 2012.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election, Background
McCotter resigned from Congress on July 6, 2012. On August 11, 2012, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced charges against four former McCotter staff aides, for their roles in obtaining and submitting fraudulent election petitions.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election, Primary election, Republican
After McCotter's resignation, the only other Republican who qualified for the primary ballot was political novice/Tea Party activist  Kerry Bentivolio.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election, Primary election, Republican
After McCotter's resignation, several candidates considered mounting a write-in campaign, including Birmingham-based foreclosure attorney David Trott, former state Rep. Andrew "Rocky" Raczkowski, state Sen. Mike Kowall of White Lake and former Oakland County Republican Party Chairman Paul Welday. Eventually, State GOP leaders rallied around former state Sen. Nancy Cassis.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district election, Primary election, Democratic
Only two candidates, both with low name recognition qualified for the Democratic Primary ballot before McCotter's resignation. They were Dr. Syed Taj, a member of the Canton Township Board of Trustees and Bill Roberts, a Lyndon LaRouche activist whose main goal was to impeach President Barack Obama and campaigned with posters with Obama having a mustache similar to Adolf Hitler.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district special election
The 2012 special election in Michigan's 11th congressional district was a special election that took place in Michigan on November 6, 2012, to replace Republican United States Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, who resigned after a failed presidential campaign and a series of scandals. Former autoworker David Curson, the Democratic nominee, narrowly defeated Republican nominee Kerry Bentivolio, a reindeer farmer, to win the seat for the last few months of McCotter's term.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district special election, Schedule
As a matter of convenience and cost saving, this special election was held in conjunction with the regularly scheduled general election on November 6, 2012. Voters were asked on the November ballot to select two candidates: one to serve the remainder of McCotter's term in the 112th Congress, and the other to serve the full 2-year term in the 113th Congress beginning in January 2013.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district special election, Democratic primary, Candidates
Despite the fact that Canton Township Trustee Syed Taj was the Democratic nominee in the regularly-scheduled general election, Taj did not opt to run in the special election and Curson did not opt to run in the general election.


2012 Michigan's 11th congressional district special election, General election
The election to fill the remaining 6 weeks of McCotter's term was largely ignored as the attention was focused on the presidential election and the race for the full two-year term between Bentivolio and Taj.


2012 Michoacán murder of photographers
The 2012 Michoacán murder of photographers concerns two Mexican freelance photographers, Arturo Barajas López (1966? - 19 August 2012) and José Antonio Aguilar Mota (1986? - 19 August 2012), who were kidnapped on 16 August 2012 and found murdered in Ecuandureo, Michoacán, Mexico. The two photojournalists worked in an area that is known for narcotics trafficking and could have been targeted because of their employment as freelance journalists who sometimes photographed accident scenes for the local newspaper.


2012 Michoacán murder of photographers, Career
Barajas, 46, and Lopez, 26, were both freelance photographers who were often seen offering their services in the plaza in the town of Zamora and also to the Zamora Valley Press Association. Barajas had also photographed accident scenes and drug-related crimes for the Diaro de Zamora newspaper. They were not, however, members of the press organization.


2012 Michoacán murder of photographers, Deaths
The two photographers were last seen on 16 August 2012 while on their way to photograph a social event. Their families said they had left home around 21:00 to work. Their bodies were found in the trunk of an abandoned car on Sunday, 19 August 2012 in the rural area of Tinaja de Vargas, outside the city of Ecuandureo. This city is about 90 miles from the town of Morelia, the capital of Michoacán. Their bodies showed signs of torture and they were killed by gunshot wounds around the head.


2012 Michoacán murder of photographers, Related crimes
The murders are believed to have been carried out by members of Knights Templar Cartel (Los Caballeros Templarios Cartel), which since 2011 has controlled drug trafficking in the state of Michoacán. Fifteen other people died in drug-related violence during the same weekend in Michoacán. No progress has been made in the investigation.


2012 Michoacán murder of photographers, Impact
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, there have been 27,199 homicides recorded in Mexico during 2011, making it the deadliest year since President Felipe Calderon was elected in 2006. During Calderon's presidency, Article 19 said there have been 72 journalists murdered, 13 journalists reported missing, and 40 assaults on journalists.


2012 Michoacán murder of photographers, Reactions
The Mexican federal government sent 1,000 additional troops to Michoacán to give extra support to local police forces in their fight against the drug cartels operating in that area.


2012 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2012 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 23–26. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams, regardless of division, met in the double-elimination tournament held at All Pro Freight Stadium in Avon, OH. Kent State won their fourth consecutive tournament and earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2012 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The winners of each division claim the top two seeds, with the next six teams, based on conference winning percentage claim the third through eight seeds. The teams then play a two bracket, double-elimination tournament leading to a final matching the winners of each bracket.


2012 Mid-American Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
David Starn won his second consecutive Tournament Most Valuable Player award. Starn was a pitcher for Kent State.


2012 Mid-American Conference football season
The 2012 Mid-American Conference football season is the 67th season for the Mid-American Conference (MAC). The University of Massachusetts joins the conference to create a 13-team, two-division league. Last season at the Marathon MAC Championship game, Northern Illinois defeated Ohio 23–20 for the championship.


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, Preseason, Pre-season Coaches changes
Terry Bowden was hired as Akron 27th head coach before the season started. Chuck Amato was named the associate head coach and defensive coordinator.


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, 2012 MAC Specialty Award Winners
Vern Smith Leadership Award Winner:  QB Jordan Lynch, Northern IllinoisCoach of the Year:  Darrell Hazell, Kent StateOffensive Player of the Year:  QB Jordan Lynch, Northern IllinoisDefensive Player of the Year:  DT Chris Jones, Bowling GreenSpecial Teams Player of the Year: KR Dri Archer, Kent StateFreshman of the Year:  WR Jaime Wilson, Western Michigan


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC First Team OffenseQuarterback – Jordan Lynch, Northern IllinoisCenter – Zac Kerin, ToledoOffensive Linemen – Brian Winters, Kent StateOffensive Lineman – Eric Fisher, Central MichiganOffensive Lineman – Dann O'Neill, Western MichiganOffensive Linemen – Austin Holtz, Ball StateTight End – Zane Fakes, Ball StateWide Receiver – Martel Moore, Northern IllinoisWide Receiver – Bernard Reedy, ToledoWide Receiver – Willie Snead IV, Ball StateWide Receiver – Jamill Smith, Ball StateRunning Back – Dri Archer, Kent StateRunning Back – David Fluellen, ToledoPlacekicker – Steven Schott, Ball State


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC First Team DefenseOutside Linebacker – Khalil Mack, Buffalo Outside Linebacker –Gabe Martin, Bowling GreenInside Linebacker – Dan Molls, ToledoInside Linebacker – Perry McIntyre, UMassDown Lineman – Chris Jones, Bowling Green Down Lineman – Roosevelt Nix, Kent State Down Lineman – Sean Progar, Northern Illinois Down Lineman – Alan Baxter, Northern IllinoisDefensive Back – Jimmy Ward, Northern Illinois Defensive Back – Dayonne Nunley, Miami Defensive Back – BooBoo Gates, Bowling GreenDefensive Back – Jermaine Robinson, ToledoPunter – Jay Karutz, Eastern Michigan


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC First Team SpecialistsKickoff Return Specialist – Dri Archer, Kent StatePunt Return Specialist –Bernard Reedy, Toledo


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC Second Team OffenseQuarterback – Keith Wenning, Ball StateCenter – Skyler Allen, OhioOffensive Lineman – Eric Herman, Ohio Offensive Lineman – Josh Kline, Kent StateOffensive Lineman – Tyler Loos, Northern IllinoisOffensive Lineman – Jordan Roussos, Bowling GreenTight End – Garrett Hoskins, Eastern Michigan Wide Receiver – Nick Harwell, Miami Wide Receiver – Alex Neutz, BuffaloWide Receiver – Jaime Wilson, Western MichiganWide Receiver – Titus Davis, Central Michigan Running Back – Beau Blankenship, OhioRunning Back – Zurlon Tipton, Central MichiganPlacekicker – Matt Weller, Ohio


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC Second Team DefenseOutside Linebacker – Tyrone Clark, Northern IllinoisOutside Linebacker – Justin Cudworth, Eastern Michigan Inside Linebacker – Travis Freeman, Ball State Inside Linebacker – Luke Batton, Kent State Down Lineman – Jonathan Newsome, Ball StateDown Lineman – Freddie Bishop, Western Michigan Down Lineman – Steven Means, BuffaloDown Lineman – Andy Mulumba, Eastern MichiganDefensive Back – Jahleel Addae, Central Michigan Defensive Back – Luke Wollet, Kent State Defensive Back – Darren Thellen, UMassDefensive Back – Justin Currie, Western MichiganPunter – Brian Schmiedebusch, Bowling Green


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC Second Team SpecialistsKickoff Return Specialist – Bernard Reedy, ToledoPunt Return Specialist – Jaime Wilson, Western Michigan


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC Third Team OffenseQuarterback – Zac Dysert, MiamiCenter – Kevin Galeher, Western MichiganOffensive Lineman – Greg Mancz, ToledoOffensive Lineman – Dominic Flewellyn, Bowling GreenOffensive Lineman – Jordan Hansel, Ball State Offensive Lineman – Cam Lowry, Ball StateTight End – Alex Bayer, Bowling GreenWide Receiver – Marquelo Suel, AkronWide Receiver – Andy Cruse, MiamiWide Receiver – Cody Wilson, Central Michigan Wide Receiver – Alonzo Russell, ToledoRunning Back – Jahwan Edwards, Ball StateRunning Back – Trayion Durham, Kent StatePlacekicker – Jeremiah Detmer, Toledo


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC Third Team DefenseOutside Linebacker – C.J. Malauulu, Kent State Outside Linebacker – Alphonso Lewis, OhioInside Linebacker – Dwayne Woods, Bowling Green Inside Linebacker – Desmond Bozeman, Western MichiganDown Lineman – Nate Ollie, Ball State Down Lineman – Jake Dooley, Kent StateDown Lineman – Neal Huynh, OhioDown Lineman – Ted Ouellet, Bowling GreenDefensive Back – Cam Truss, Bowling GreenDefensive Back – Eric Patterson, Ball StateDefensive Back – Cheatham Norrils, ToledoDefensive Back – Johnnie Simon, Western Michigan Punter – Colter Johnson, UMass


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, All Conference Teams
2012 All-MAC Third Team SpecialistsKickoff Return Specialist – Jamill Smith, Ball StatePunt Return Specialist – Jamill Smith, Ball State


2012 Mid-American Conference football season, Bowl games
The MAC placed seven teams in bowl games in 2012. This was the highest number of MAC bowl teams in the conference's history. For the first time, the MAC placed a team in a BCS Bowl with Northern Illinois playing in the Orange Bowl.


2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament began on May 17 and ended on May 20, 2012 at Marty L. Miller Field, on the campus of Norfolk State University in Norfolk, VA. It is an eight-team double elimination tournament. Bethune-Cookman won the tournament, as they have done each year but one since the tournament began in 1999. The Wildcats claimed the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2012 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament, Format and seeding
The four teams in the North Division and top four finishers from the South Division were seeded one through four based on regular season records, with first round matchups of the top seed from the North and the fourth seed from the South, the second seed from the North against the third seed from the South, and so on. The winners advanced in the winners' bracket, while first round losers played elimination games. The format meant that Florida A&M was left out of the field.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
The 2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge was a multi-class sports car and GT motor race held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Ohio, United States on August 4, 2012. It was the sixth round of the 2012 American Le Mans Series season and the 41st race in the combined history of sportscar races associated with the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge. The race was held over a two-hour-and-45-minute time period, during which 123 laps of the 3.6 kilometre circuit were completed for a race distance of 447 kilometres.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
The race was won by the Muscle Milk Pickett Racing team. German drivers Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf driving a HPD ARX-03a Honda sports car won by over a lap from their season long P1 class rivals, the Dyson Racing Team run Lola B12/60 sports car. It was the fifth consecutive victory for Luhr and Graf. It was Luhr third outright win at Mid-Ohio and Graf's second. The second Dyson Racing Team Lola-Mazda was in third place near the end of the race when the gearbox failed.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
Level 5 Motorsports took their fifth win of the season taking a seven second win in their HPD ARX-03b over their season long rivals, the Conquest Endurance team Morgan LMP2. It was Scott Tucker's fifth win of the season and Christophe Bouchut's fourth win.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
Fifth was the second Level 5 Motorsports HPD-Honda ahead of the Prototype Challenge class winners, the PR1/Mathiasan Motorsports pair of Rudy Junco and Marino Franchitti in their Oreca FLM09. It was the team's third victory in the Prototype Challenge class adding to wins at Road America and Road Atlanta in 2011.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
Eleventh outright was the GT class winners, Corvette Racing pair of Oliver Gavin and Tommy Milner in their Chevrolet Corvette. Gavin had to endure twenty minutes of pressure from Jörg Bergmeister in the Flying Lizard Motorsports. The margin of victory was just 0.2 seconds.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
The GT Challenge class winners, Tim Pappas and Jeroen Bleekemolen, claimed JDX Racing's first win of the year. It was Bleekemolen's second win after the year after winning in Monterey in May with TRG. TRG was second in class with new driver Al Carter and Spencer Pumpelly.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge
29 of the 32 entries were running at races conclusion.


2012 Mid-Ohio Sports Car Challenge, Race, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).


2012 Mid-South Conference football season
The 2012 Mid-South Conference football season is made up of 13 United States college athletic programs that compete in the Mid-South Conference (MSC) under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 2012 college football season. The conference is divided into two divisions, the East Division and the West Division.


2012 Mid-South Conference football season
Georgetown College was declared champion of the East Division with a conference record of 5 wins and 0 losses in conference. Bethel was declared the winner of the West Division with 6 wins and 0 losses in conference. A total of three of the teams qualified for the 2012 NAIA Football National Championship: Georgetown, Cumberlands, and Bethel.


2012 Mid-South Conference football season, Awards
Upon completion of the season, the conference awarded multiple individual awards. In the Western Division, Cumberland's Lemeco Miller was named offensive player of the year while Belhaven's Calvin Lewis earned defensive player of the year. University of the Cumberlands' Terrance Cobb and Weston Hazelhurst each were awarded the East Division's Offensive and Defensive player of the year awards. Both divisions awarded first and second all-conference teams as well as academic all-conference awards. Cumberland University led the academic honors with 31 student athletes.


2012 Mid-States Football Association season
The 2012 Mid-States Football Association season is made up of 13 United States college athletic programs that compete in the Mid-States Football Association (MSFA) under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) for the 2012 college football season. The conference is divided into two leagues, the Mideast League and the Midwest league.


2012 Mid-States Football Association season
Marian, Saint Xavier, and Saint Francis (IN) were declared tri-champions of the Mideast league and St. Abrose, William Penn, and Grand View were tri-champions of the Midwest League. A total of five of the teams qualified for the 2012 NAIA Football National Championship:  Saint Xavier, Marian and Saint Francis from the Mideast League ; St. Ambrose and William Penn from the Midwest League.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak
Since 2012, an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus has affected several countries, primarily in its namesake, the Middle East. The virus, which causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), is a novel coronavirus that was first identified in a patient from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on June 6, 2012.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak
Sporadic cases, small clusters, and large outbreaks have been reported in 24 countries, with over 2,500 cases of the virus and over 900 deaths, as of 2021.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Coronavirus
Most infections with human coronaviruses are mild and associated with common colds. The seven coronaviruses known to infect humans are in the alpha and beta genera. Both MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV (severe acute respiratory syndrome) are betacoronaviruses.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Coronavirus
Global surveillance of potential epidemics and preparation has improved since and because of the SARS epidemic, and MERS is being closely monitored.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Coronavirus
The Fourth Meeting of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee concerning MERS-CoV was held on 4 December 2013. The committee decided that the conditions for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) had not at present been met.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Epidemiology
In November 2012, Egyptian virologist Dr. Ali Mohamed Zaki sent a virus sample from the first confirmed case in Saudi Arabia to virologist Ron Fouchier, a leading coronavirus researcher at the Erasmus Medical Center (EMC) in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The second laboratory-proven case was in London, confirmed by the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA). The HPA named the virus the London1_novel CoV 2012.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Epidemiology
On 8 November 2012, in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Zaki and co-authors from the Erasmus Medical Center published more details, including a scientific name, Human Coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Center (HCoV-EMC), which was then used in scientific literature. In the article, they noted four respiratory human coronaviruses (HCoV) known to be endemic: 229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Epidemiology
In May 2013, the Coronavirus Study Group of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses adopted the official designation, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). which was adopted by the World Health Organization to "provide uniformity and facilitate communication about the disease"


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Epidemiology
By May 2013, 10 of the 22 people who died and 22 of 44 cases reported were in Saudi Arabia and over 80% were male. This gender disparity is thought to be because most women in Saudi Arabia wear veils that cover the mouth and nose, decreasing their chances of being exposed to the virus. By 19 June 2013, MERS had infected at least 60 people with cases reported in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Tunisia, Germany, the United Kingdom (UK), France and Italy, with a death toll of 38. Saudi officials expressed great concern that millions of Muslims from around the world would potentially be exposed to the virus during the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Epidemiology
In May 2014, the WHO said it was monitoring the situation as global cases of MERS appeared to be on the rise, but said the situation did not yet constitute a health emergency. On 3 June 2014, Saudi Arabia revised the country's total cases of MERS to date to 688 cases after re-examining the data as part of an effort to better understand the disease. A total of 282 people had died from MERS. The numbers represented a jump of 113 cases and 92 deaths. Despite the jump in reported cases, the number of new cases was on the decline according to Tariq Madany, head of the medical advisory council. At the same time, the Saudi deputy health minister was fired, the second high level health official fired within two months.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Epidemiology
On 4 June 2014, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine indicated that camel-to-human transmission of the virus was possible. In November 2013, a man became ill with MERS after tending to a sick camel. Viral samples taken from the man, who eventually died of the virus, and the sick animal were virtually identical. This provided very strong evidence that the man had gotten the virus from the camel. As of June 2015, there were 1,227 confirmed human cases of MERS, resulting in 449 deaths (37% mortality).


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Africa, Tunisia
On 20 May 2013, the novel coronavirus reached Tunisia killing one man and infecting two of his relatives. Tunisia was the eighth country to be affected by MERS-CoV after Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Africa, Tunisia
According to a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publication, in April 2014, Tunisia had a total of 3 cases with 1 fatality.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, South Korea
In May 2015, the first case in South Korea was confirmed in a man who had visited several Middle Eastern countries. As of 16 June 2015, a total of 150 cases had been infected, including 18 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). As of 29 June 2015, 32 people in South Korea had died from this outbreak, with 182 confirmed cases of infection. At least 3800 were quarantined.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Malaysia
On 16 April 2014, Malaysia reported its first MERS-COV related death. The person was a 54-year-old man who had traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, together with pilgrimage group composed of 18 people, from 15 to 28 March 2014. He became ill by 4 April, and sought remedy at a clinic in Johor on 7 April. He was hospitalized by 9 April and died on 13 April.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Indonesia
On 11 May 2014, two people in Medan were suspected infected by MERS-Cov (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome-Corona Virus).


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Philippines
On 16 April 2014, an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who returned from Al Ain City, United Arab Emirates was found positive for MERS-CoV at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The OFW was tested for the virus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) but immediately travelled to Manila. Doctors from UAE later contacted the Philippines Department of Health (DOH) confirming the condition of the OFW. The OFW, who was working as a nurse in the UAE, had contact with a Filipino paramedic who had died recently in the said country.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Philippines
The OFW together with four of his family members who fetched him at the airport were quarantined. In a press release on 19 April, DOH announced that the OFW who UAE doctors found positive for MERS-CoV was found negative for the virus in an subsequent test by Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Philippines
Explaining further regarding the test, Secretary Enrique Ona explained, "Since ten days had lapsed from the reported testing date at the UAE, our task force right away got in touch with him and decided to perform a test on him, and fortunately, as well for the comfort of everybody, the findings of our Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, he tested negative." In the same press release, DOH also announced that they were tracking all other 414 passengers of Etihad Airways Flight 424 (the flight the OFW took from Abu Dhabi, UAE to Manila) in order that they should be tested.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Philippines
On 11 February 2015, a 32-year-old Filipino nurse from Saudi Arabia, who was also 1 month pregnant, was the country's first MERS-CoV case, DOH confirmed after the test for the virus turned out to be positive. The Evangelista Medical Hospital in San Pedro, Laguna, the facility where the patient was first admitted, was temporarily closed by DOH for fourteen days. On 17 February 2015, all those who had exposure or had contact with the said nurse were tested negative for the virus. On 6 March 2015, The Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed that three Filipino female healthcare workers in Saudi Arabia were infected with MERS-CoV.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Philippines
On 6 July 2015, DOH confirmed the second detected case of MERS-CoV in the country. The patient who had contracted the virus was from the Middle East and was referred to the RITM on 4 July 2015. Another person, who was also showing symptoms, was placed in isolation after he had close contact with the said patient; eight others, who also had had contact with the patient, were identified. DOH took steps to track all the people with whom the patient had had contact.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
The first known case of a previously unknown coronavirus was identified in a 60-year-old Saudi Arabian man with acute pneumonia, who died of kidney failure in Jeddah on June 20, 2012. As of 12 May 2013, two more deaths had been reported in the al-Ahsa region of Saudi Arabia. In the latest cluster of infections, 15 cases had been confirmed, and nine of those patients had died. Ten of the 22 people who died and 22 of 44 cases reported were in Saudi Arabia.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
An unconfirmed case in another Saudi citizen, for which no clinical information was available, was also reported around this time. On 22 September 2012, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MOH) announced that the two cases involving Saudi citizens, caused by what they termed a "rare pattern of coronavirus," had both proven fatal.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
Two of the Saudi Arabia cases were from the same family and from that family at least one additional person presented similar symptoms but tested negative for the novel coronavirus.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
On 21 February 2013, WHO stated that there had been 13 laboratory-confirmed cases, 6 cases (4 fatal) from Saudi Arabia, 2 cases (both fatal) from Jordan, 2 cases from Qatar, and 3 from the UK.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
In March 2013, the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health reported the death of a 39-year-old man, the 15th case and 9th death reported to WHO. On 2 May 2013, the Saudi Ministry of Health announced five people died and two other people were in critical condition with confirmed cases of a SARS-like virus. The delays in obtaining data and absence of basic information (which would usefully include: sex, age, other medical conditions and smoking status) were noted and decried by Dr. Margaret Chan and in Pro-Med comments on numerous briefings. At the annual meeting of the world's health ministers, Dr. Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said the virus was now her "greatest concern."


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
On 28 May 2013, the Saudi Ministry of Health reported five more cases of MERS-CoV. The cases had been "recorded among citizens in the Eastern Region, ranging in age from 73 to 85 years, but they have all chronic diseases." With this announcement, the unofficial global case count reached 49 while the death toll stood at 24 according to the CDC. As of 26 June 34 deaths have been recorded in the kingdom.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
On 1 August 2013, the World Health Organization announced three new MERS-CoV cases in that Saudi Arabia, all of them in women, two of whom were healthcare workers. "With the three new cases, Saudi Arabia's posted MERS tally increases to 74 cases with 39 deaths. The cases raise the WHO's MERS count to 94 cases and 46 deaths."


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
On 31 October 2013, the WHO announced that three patients in Saudi Arabia died of MERS. The patients were one woman and two men and "all had underlying medical conditions but all reported having had no contact with animals before falling ill".


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
Early on 23 April 2014, 11 new cases including a first case for Mecca were reported by the Health Ministry. An additional 13 cases were reported on the same day. With the additional reported cases, there were now a total of 285 cases with 83 deaths in the Kingdom.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
A hospital-related outbreak in Riyadh brought the total in Saudi Arabia to 1,115 cases and 480 fatalities as of 18 August 2015. Since May 2015, most of the cases had occurred at the King Abdulaziz Medical City, a large national guard hospital.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
Due to fears of the MERS virus, attendance in the hajj in 2013 was lower than the previous year. The Saudi government asked "elderly and chronically ill Muslims to avoid the hajj this year" and restricted the number of people allowed "to perform the pilgrimage".


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Health Minister Abdullah Al-Rabia said "that authorities had so far detected no cases among the pilgrims" of MERS. However, the Spanish government, in November 2013, reported a woman in Spain, who had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic pilgrimage, contracted the disease.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Jordan
In April 2012, six hospital workers were diagnosed with acute respiratory failure of unknown origin. Of the six, two died. All the cases were reported to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). After the September identification of a novel CoV strain, a retroactive analysis of the hospital workers was performed. Epidemiologists discovered the Jordan cases. Using stored laboratory samples for all six, it was found that samples from the two patients who had died tested positive for nCoV.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Jordan
On 24 April 2014, a 25-year-old male was found positive for the coronavirus. He had history of exposure to camels and had consumed camel milk.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Oman
On 31 October 2013, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that one person in Oman had MERS. The WHO said "the patient in Oman is a 68-year-old man from Al Dahkliya region who became ill" on 26 October 2013.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, United Arab Emirates
On 14 April 2014, one Filipino paramedic died in the United Arab Emirates, with six other reported to be infected with the virus. On 17 April, the UAE Ministry of Health reported another fatality and four additional cases, including the Filipino medical worker who travelled to the Philippines on 16 April.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, United Arab Emirates
On 21 April 2014, the Health Ministry of UAE reported an additional 9 cases.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Iran
The Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran reported that two women had been diagnosed with MERS and on 29 May 2014 one of the women died of the disease in the city of Kerman. According to Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Gooya, Chief of the Center for Management of Contagious Diseases of Iran, the patient had been diagnosed with high blood pressure and her immune system, therefore, wasn't strong enough to fend off the disease. The second patient is said to be in a good condition.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Asia, Iran
Four days later, on 4 June 2014, the Ministry of Health reported that 3 more people including a doctor and a nurse who came in contact with the deceased patient were suspected to have contracted the disease. The victim's son-in-law is also reported to have been infected. According to Dr. Gooya, the infection of 1 out of the 3 suspected patients was confirmed and more tests were under way to determine the situation of the other two patients.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, The Netherlands
On 13 May 2014, the first case was confirmed. On the 15th of May, the second case was tested positive on MERS-CoV.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, France
On 7 May 2013, a case was confirmed in Nord departement of France in a man who had previously traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, France
On 12 May 2013, in a case of human to human transmission, a man previously hospitalized in the same room as the first patient was confirmed by French Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, France
France reported its first death from MERS near the end of May 2013. On 28 May 2013, a report by the Associated Press said a French patient died of the novel coronavirus related to SARS. Fifty percent of those infected have died.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, Greece
On 20 April 2014, Greece reported its first MERS-CoV case. The infected individual was a 69-year-old Greek male who had returned to Greece on 17 April from Saudi Arabia. People with close contact with the infected man were identified and were being followed up.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, Italy
On 31 May 2013, the Italian health ministry announced its first case of MERS-CoV in a 45-year-old man who had traveled to Jordan. The patient was being treated in a hospital in Tuscany and his condition was reported as not life-threatening.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, Spain
On 1 November 2013, a woman who had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia for the Hajj, contracted the disease. She was stated to be in stable condition, and investigators from the World Health Organization are investigating whom she came in contact with.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, United Kingdom
In February 2013, the first UK case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in Manchester in an elderly man who had recently visited the Middle East and Pakistan; it was the 10th case globally. The man's son, whom he visited in the hospital in Birmingham, was immuno-suppressed because of a brain tumour, and contracted the virus, providing the first clear evidence for person-to-person transmission. He died on 19 February 2013.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, United Kingdom
The second patient was a 49-year-old Qatari man who had visited Saudi Arabia before falling ill. He was flown privately by air ambulance from Doha to London on 11 September where he was admitted to St Mary's Hospital and later was transferred to St Thomas's Hospital. As a result of Dr Zaki's post on Pro-MED, the novel coronavirus was quickly identified. He was treated for respiratory disease and, like the first patient in Saudi Arabia, died of kidney failure in October 2012.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, United Kingdom
Another patient who had been in Guys and St Thomas hospital in the UK since September 2012 after visiting the Middle East died on 28 June 2013. A spokesperson for the hospital stated that "Guys and St Thomas can confirm that the patient with severe respiratory illness due to novel coronavirus (MERS-COV) died on Friday 28 June, after his condition deteriorated despite every effort and full supportive treatment."


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, Europe, United Kingdom
As of April 2014, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control reported a total of 4 cases in the United Kingdom, 3 of which were fatalities.


2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, Reported cases, North America, United States
On 2 May 2014, the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the first diagnosis of MERS-CoV in the United States in Indiana. The man diagnosed was a healthcare worker who had been in Saudi Arabia a week earlier, and was reported to be in good condition. Another case, a Florida man from the Orlando area, was reported, and a third Illinois man was at that point asymptomatic but had tested positive for a past infection with the healthcare worker from Indiana. The latter case was the first human-to-human transmission in the United States. On 28 May 2014, the CDC announced that the third person who was found positive for the virus was not infected. The announcement came after a further laboratory analysis by CDC indicating that the person was never infected with the virus.


2012 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team
The 2012 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team represented Middle Tennessee State University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by seventh-year head coach Rick Stockstill and played their home games at Johnny "Red" Floyd Stadium. The 2012 season proved to be the last for the Blue Raiders in the Sun Belt Conference; Middle Tennessee had initially announced a move to Conference USA (C-USA) to take effect no later than July 2014, and later announced that the move to C-USA would take effect in July 2013. They finished the season 8–4, 6–2 in Sun Belt play to finish in a three way tie for second place. Despite finishing in second place and being two games above bowl eligibility, the Blue Raiders were not invited to a bowl game.


2012 Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football team, During the offseason
Tyrone Nix was named co-defensive coordinator, along with Steve Ellis, and linebackers coach on February 22, 2012. Nix has led nationally ranked defenses at Southern Miss, South Carolina, and Ole Miss. Interim offensive coordinator, Buster Faulkner, was named offensive coordinator in February 2012. During the 2011 season Faulkner took over the play-calling duties the final seven games of the year following the resignation of Willie Simmons. Faulkner’s 2011 offense went on to record the fifth most yards of total offense, complete a record 299 passes, while becoming just the second offense in school history to amass over 3,000 passing yards.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election
The Middlesbrough by-election was a by-election for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's House of Commons constituency of Middlesbrough. The by-election was caused by the death of its Member of Parliament Sir Stuart Bell. It was held on 29 November 2012, the same day as by-elections in Croydon North and Rotherham.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election
The deadline for nominations was 14 November. The election returned a Labour member of parliament, with UKIP second and the Liberal Democrats third.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Candidates
UKIP selected Richard Elvin, chairman of the North East Regional Committee, as their candidate. He contested the Houghton and Sunderland South seat for UKIP in 2009. The Liberal Democrats selected George Selmer, who works in employment services, as their candidate. Stockton borough Councillor Ben Houchen was the Conservative candidate.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Candidates
In November 2012, Councillor Imdad Hussain, who had been suspended from the Labour Party for two years after failing to disclose he had been banned as a company director, resigned from the party and announced he would be standing for the Peace Party in the by-election.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Candidates
Campaigner Mark Heslehurst launched his candidacy as a self-styled 'independent Labour' candidate. He has no description on the ballot paper. Mark Heslehurst organises events to raise awareness of an issue related to his estranged partner and son, which has involved walking 500 miles to Downing Street.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Candidates
Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition candidate John Malcolm is the Tees, Esk & Wear Valley Health Unison branch representative.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Candidates
Current independent Middlesbrough mayor Ray Mallon mooted the possibility of standing in the by-election, depending on the quality of other candidates, but did not submit his candidacy.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Hustings
Hustings were held at St Barnabas' Church on 26 November 2012, hosted by Friends of the Earth. The lively proceedings went well, with members of the audience asking over 20 questions on topics ranging from education and services to employment and the environment. Six of the eight candidates were invited.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Result
The Labour Party held the seat, with Andy McDonald elected as the new MP. Along with other by-elections held on the same day, there were sharp declines in the vote for the governing coalition parties, although this was the only one of the three at which they both retained their deposit, and the only one at which the Liberal Democrats finished ahead of the Conservatives. UKIP finished in second place. Previously they had only come second in one other parliamentary election (the Barnsley Central by-election in 2011). They also came second in the Rotherham contest held on the same date as the Middlesbrough election.


2012 Middlesbrough by-election, Result
The result is also notable as the first time the Peace Party had ever retained their deposit at a parliamentary election and their highest percentage of vote share in a single constituency.


2012 Midlothian Council election
The 2012 Midlothian Council election took place on 3 May 2012 to elect members of Midlothian Council. The election used the six wards created as a result of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, with each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system form of proportional representation, with 18 Councillors being elected.


2012 Midlothian Council election
The election saw Labour retain their traditional position as the largest party on the Council though they lost compared to the 2007 election. The Scottish National Party significantly increased their representation with 2 net gains and a significant rise in vote share to have the same seat numbers as the Labour Party. The Scottish Green Party gained a seat on the Council for the first time and so to did Independent, former Conservative member, Peter de Vink. The Scottish Liberal Democrats were wiped out from this authority as well, losing all 3 of their seats (2 in the election, 1 by the defection of a member after 2007).


2012 Midlothian Council election
Following the election the SNP formed a minority administration with the support of the Green Party and the Independent. This is the first time that Labour had not had a role in the running of Midlothian in 84 years.


2012 Midlothian Council election, Election result
Note: "Votes" are the first preference votes. The net gain/loss and percentage changes relate to the result of the previous Scottish local elections on 3 May 2007. This may differ from other published sources showing gain/loss relative to seats held at dissolution of Scotland's councils.


2012 Midwestern State Mustangs football team
The 2012 Midwestern State Mustangs football team represented Midwestern State University in the 2012 NCAA Division II football season as a member of the Lone Star Conference.


2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy
Tasmanian soccer clubs from the regional divisions, competed in 2012 for the Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy. This knockout competition was won by Glenorchy Knights, their third title.


2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy, Preliminary Round
A total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches were completed by 12 March 2012.


2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy, First round
A total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches were completed by 9 April 2012.


2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy, Quarter finals
A total of 8 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed by 5 May 2012.


2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy, Semi finals
A total of 4 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed by 27 May 2012. The draw was as follows:


2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy, Final
The 2012 Milan Lakoseljac Memorial Trophy was held at the neutral venue of KGV Park on 11 June. Earlier in the day Olympia Warriors won the Women's Cup, and Clarence United won the Under 19s Cup.


2012 Milano–Torino
The 2012 Milano–Torino was the 93rd edition of the Milano–Torino single-day cycling race. It was held on 26 September 2012, over a distance of 193 km, starting near Milan in Novate Milanese and ending near Turin on the Colle di Superga ("Superga Hill").


2012 Milano–Torino
Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank rider Alberto Contador (winner of 2012 Vuelta a España) won the race, having attacked on the final climb to Basilica di Superga, winning a "classic" for the first time in his professional career. Diego Ulissi of Lampre-ISD was second and Astana's Fredrik Kessiakoff completed the podium.


2012 Milano–Torino, Teams
The start list included 18 teams, with 11 ProTour teams, and more than 150 riders.


2012 Milan–San Remo
The 2012 Milan–San Remo was the 103rd running of the Milan–San Remo single-day cycling race. It was held on 17 March over a distance of 298 kilometres (185.2 miles) and was the fourth race of the 2012 UCI World Tour season.


2012 Milan–San Remo
The race was won by GreenEDGE rider Simon Gerrans, who was part of a three-man group that battled for the victory, in a sprint finish. Gerrans finished ahead of RadioShack–Nissan's Fabian Cancellara – the winner of the race in 2008 – and Liquigas–Cannondale's Vincenzo Nibali, who completed the podium.


2012 Milan–San Remo, Teams
As Milan–San Remo was a UCI World Tour event, all 18 UCI ProTeams were invited automatically and obligated to send a squad. Seven other squads were given wildcard places into the race, and as such, formed the event's 25-team peloton. Each team started with eight riders, making a starting peloton of 200.


2012 Military Bowl
The 2012 Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman was a post-season American college football bowl game held on December 27, 2012, at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C.. The fifth edition of the Military Bowl began at 3:00 p.m. EST and was shown on ESPN. It was between the San Jose State Spartans from the Western Athletic Conference and the Bowling Green Falcons from the Mid-American Conference and was the final game of the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season for both teams. The Spartans accepted their invitation after earning a 10–2 record in the regular season, while the Falcons accepted after earning an 8–4 record on theirs.


2012 Military Bowl
This was the first Military Bowl appearance as well as the first meeting between these two teams. It proved to be the last edition of the Military Bowl played at RFK Stadium. On May 20, 2013, the bowl announced that future editions would be held at Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland.


2012 Military Bowl, Teams
Under normal circumstances, the 2012 game would have been between the eighth bowl-eligible team from the Atlantic Coast Conference and Army. However, the Army Black Knights were not bowl eligible because of their 2–9 record. In addition, the ACC only had six bowl-eligible teams this season because the Miami Hurricanes, in the midst of an NCAA investigation into allegations of major rules violations, self-imposed a bowl ban. Therefore, a new matchup for the 2012 game was decided.


2012 Military Bowl, Teams, San Jose State
After a 1-12 record in 2010 and 5-7 record in 2011, the Spartans finished with a 10–2 overall record and second-place in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) at 5–1 (their only conference loss coming to the WAC champion Utah State Aggies). After defeating the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs to finish their regular season, the Spartans accepted a bid to the Military Bowl on November 30.


2012 Military Bowl, Teams, San Jose State
This was the Spartans' final game as a member of the WAC before moving to the Mountain West Conference in 2013. As the WAC stopped sponsoring football after the 2012 season (the conference's 51st in existence), the 2012 Military Bowl was the last football game involving a WAC team.


2012 Military Bowl, Teams, San Jose State
After leading San Jose State to a 10-2 regular season record, San Jose State head coach Mike MacIntyre resigned from San Jose State on December 10, 2012, to become head coach at Colorado. Defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Kent Baer was named interim head coach for this game only, and San Diego coach Ron Caragher was named as the permanent head coach effective 2013.


2012 Military Bowl, Teams, Bowling Green
In a memorable year for the conference overall, the Falcons finished in second place in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) East Division with a 6–2 record, after which they accepted their invitation to the Military Bowl.


2012 Military Bowl, Teams, Bowling Green
Bowling Green State University accepted its invitation to the Military Bowl on December 3.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
The game began with a 65-yard kickoff from Bowling Green's Anthony Farinella for a touchback. San Jose State quarterback David Fales' first play from scrimmage was a 15-yard pass to Noel Grigsby. However, the first drive ended in a three-and-out after an incomplete pass, rush for no gain, and incomplete pass. Harrison Waid punted the ball 33 yards to Bowling Green's 23 but immediately left the game due to complications of pneumonia.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
On Bowling Green's first play from scrimmage, San Jose State committed an encroachment penalty for a five-yard penalty. Running back Anthon Samuel advanced the ball 6 yards for a first down but lost 2 on the next play. Two incomplete passes from Matt Schilz made it another three-and-out. Bowling Green's punt was downed at San Jose State's 21. In a four-play, 79-yard drive that took 1 minute and 45 seconds, De'Leon Eskridge rushed for 3 yards, then David Fales completed three consecutive passes, including a 33-yard touchdown pass to Kyle Nunn. After the extra point, San Jose State led 7-0.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
Following an illegal block penalty, 10 yards were taken off BooBoo Gates' kickoff return, and Bowling Green started on their own 29. Matt Schilz completed three consecutive passes of 28, 13, and 9 yards to advance to the SJSU 21. Bowling Green could only advance 12 more yards, and Tyler Tate converted a 28-yard field goal to cut San Jose State's lead to 7-3.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, First quarter
Farinella's kickoff landed out of bounds, so San Jose State started the next drive from their own 35. Following a 2-yard rush from Ina Liaina and 7-yard pass to Jabari Carr came 3rd-and-1 from San Jose State's 44. However, San Jose State was forced to punt because Tyler Ervin rushed for a loss of 6. Placekicker Austin Lopez came in for the injured Waid, but Lopez's first punt was blocked and landed at San Jose State's 24.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Second quarter
Three rushing plays by Samuel in the first quarter set up a successful 33-yard field goal by Tate to open the second quarter. The score became 7-6 San Jose State, and San Jose State would make only 5 yards on their next possession. Lopez would successfully punt the ball away on fourth down for this and the next San Jose possession. Bowling Green also punted for all three of its second-quarter possessions. After Lopez scored a 36-yard field goal with 1:40 left, the score was 10-6 at halftime.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
BooBoo Gates returned Lopez's kickoff for 32 yards to begin the second half. Bowling Green's Brian Schmiedebusch punted after Bowling Green's drive ended with just 5 yards. Fales completed two passes to advance his team for 15 yards. However, Bowling Green's Charlie Walker sacked Fales and forced a fumble. Bowling Green's Chris Jones recovered the fumble and returned it 20 yards to the San Jose State 8. Bowling Green would get its first lead of the game 13-10 after an Anthon Samuel 8-yard TD run and extra point.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
After three drives of both teams ended with punts, San Jose State's Bené Benwikere blocked Schmiedebusch's punt at the Bowling Green 24. The ball rolled out of the end zone for a safety, and Bowling Green's lead was cut to 13-12 with 5:40 left.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Third quarter
Starting from San Jose State's own 32, Fales made three consecutive complete passes for 18, 7, and 19 yards. After an incomplete pass, De'Leon Eskridge rushed 6 yards for 3rd-and-4 from Bowling Green's 18. From that position, Fales made an 18-yard touchdown pass to Chandler Jones, who caught the ball at the flat and dodged sideline defenders to advance the ball to the end zone.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Bowling Green got the ball back with 14:14 left after a San Jose State punt. In an 8-play, 68-yard drive with mostly rushing plays, John Pettigrew first converted a 3rd-and-4 with a 34-yard run to advance to San Jose State's one-yard line. Pettigrew followed with a one-yard TD run, and the extra point kick gave the lead back to Bowling Green, 20-19.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
With 10:26 left, San Jose State would go on a 13-play, 68-yard drive that took 5:43 off the clock. Lopez converted a 27-yard field goal for San Jose State to take a 22-20 lead. All but one play on this drive were passing plays, save for one botched end-around play by second-string quarterback Blake Jurich to running back Kyle Nunn from Bowling Green's 10. Jurich recovered at the 22 for a loss of 12.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Bowling Green's Pettigrew made an 18-yard kickoff return to the Bowling Green 23. Schilz's first pass from scrimmage was incomplete, and San Jose State defensive end Travis Johnson sacked Schilz on the next play and forced a fumble. San Jose State linebacker Keith Smith recovered the fumble at the 24-yard line. Taking over with 4:22 left, Eskridge rushed twice for 9 yards to the Bowling Green 15, and on 3rd-and-1, Fales completed a 12-yard pass to Ina Liaina. After a 2-yard rush, Eskridge rushed 1 yard for a touchdown. San Jose State led 29-20 after the extra point, and with 2:34 left, a win was inevitable.


2012 Military Bowl, Game summary, Fourth quarter
Bowling Green's final drive was marred by a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty that forced a 3rd-and-25. Schilz's pass only went 22 yards, and on 4th-and-3, Schilz's pass was deflected by Travis Raciti. San Jose State ran out the last 1:51 to seal the 29-20 victory.


2012 Miller Superbike World Championship round
The 2012 Miller Superbike World Championship round was the sixth round of the 2012 Superbike World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of May 26–28, 2012 at Miller Motorsports Park, in Tooele, Utah, United States. The races were held on Memorial Day Monday.


2012 Miller Superbike World Championship round
Carlos Checa won the first race but lost the front and crashed in the second race while Marco Melandri finished second to Checa in the first race but won the second race. Still, it was Aprilia rider Max Biaggi that extended his lead in the championship standings by finishing third place in both races.


2012 Miller Superbike World Championship round, Superbike, Race 2 classification
The race was stopped after 3 laps due to Hiroshi Aoyama's crash, that spilt fluid on the track, and restarted an hour later on an 18-lap distance.


2012 Milton Keynes Council election
The 2012 Milton Keynes Council election took place on Thursday 3 May 2012 to elect members of Milton Keynes Unitary Council in Buckinghamshire, England. One third of the council – the 17 seats contested in the 2008 election – was up for election and the council, which totals 51 seats, was under no overall control in advance of and after the vote. 7 of the Conservative Party's 21 seats were up for election, 4 of the Liberal Democrats's 17, 2 of the Labour's 9 and all 4 Independents.


2012 Milton Keynes Council election
One Liberal Democrat had become independent between the 2011 and 2012 elections.


2012 Milwaukee Brewers season
The Milwaukee Brewers' 2012 season was the 43rd season for the franchise in Milwaukee, the 15th in the National League, and 44th overall. The Brewers finished the season with an 83–79 record and third place in the Central Division of the National League. They did not make the playoffs.


2012 Milwaukee Brewers season
The Brewers struck out 10 or more opposing batters in each of eight consecutive games between August 20 and August 28, the longest such streak in MLB history as of 2016.


2012 Milwaukee Brewers season, Farm system
The Brewers' farm system consisted of seven minor league affiliates in 2012. The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers won the Midwest League championship.


2012 Milwaukee IndyFest
The 2012 Milwaukee IndyFest Presented by XYQ was the eighth round of the 2012 IndyCar Series season. It took place on Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the 1.015-mile (1.633 km) Milwaukee Mile, in West Allis, Wisconsin.


2012 Milwaukee IndyFest, Classification, Race results
Points include 1 point for pole position and 2 points for most laps led.


2012 Milwaukee Mustangs season
The 2012 Milwaukee Mustangs season was the fourth season for the franchise, and the third in the Arena Football League (AFL). The team was coached by Bob Landsee and played their home games at BMO Harris Bradley Center. The Mustangs finished the season 5–13 and did not qualify for the playoffs. Following this season, the Mustangs announced that they would suspend operations for 2013, with the hope of returning to play in 2014.


2012 Milwaukee Mustangs season, Schedule
The Mustangs had a bye week during the season's opening week, and began the season on the road in week 2 against the Arizona Rattlers on March 17. Their first home game was on March 29 when they hosted the Pittsburgh Power. They finished the regular season on the road against the Orlando Predators.


2012 Milwaukee Mustangs season, Final roster
Rookies in italics updated July 20, 201223 Active, 15 Inactive


2012 Milwaukee mayoral election
The 2012 Milwaukee mayoral election was held on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, to elect the mayor for Milwaukee. Incumbent mayor Tom Barrett was elected to a third term, defeating Edward McDonald. This election coincided with other municipal elections, including an unopposed re-election bid for Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele and contested elections for City Comptroller, City Treasurer, and the Common Council.


2012 Milwaukee mayoral election
Municipal elections in Wisconsin are non-partisan. The non-partisan primary was held on Tuesday, February 21, 2012, to narrow the field of candidates to two.


2012 Milwaukee mayoral election, General election, Results
Barrett announced on March 30, 2012 that he will run in the Democratic primary for Governor in the recall election to face incumbent Scott Walker and subsequently lost.


2012 Mini 7 Racing Club season
The 2012 Mini 7 Racing Club season will consist of twelve rounds over seven events including returns to Oulton Park and Castle Combe. Endaf Owens is the Mini Miglia defending champion  and Paul Spark the Mini Se7en defending champion.


2012 Mini Challenge UK
The 2012 Mini Challenge season was the eleventh season of the Mini Challenge UK. The season started on 14 April at Silverstone Circuit and ended on 7 October at Donington Park. The season featured seven rounds across the UK.


2012 Mini Challenge UK, Championship standings
Championship points were awarded for the first 15 positions in each Championship Race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. There were bonus points awarded for Pole Position and Fastest Lap.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1
Minnesota Amendment 1 (also called Minnesota Marriage Amendment or Minnesota Gay Marriage Amendment) was a legislatively referred constitutional amendment proposed to ban marriage between same-sex couples in the state of Minnesota, that appeared on the ballot on November 6, 2012. It was rejected by 51.90% of voters.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Legislative approval
On May 11, 2011, the Minnesota Senate passed a bill to place a proposed amendment to the state constitution on the ballot that would ban same-sex marriage. The vote was 37–27, with all Republicans and one Democrat voting for the amendment. An identical bill was passed by the House on May 21; the vote was 70–62 with two Democrats and all but four Republicans voting for the amendment. The proposed amendment was on the ballot on November 6, 2012.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Legislative approval
The proposed amendment read: "Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota." It did not refer to civil unions or domestic partnerships. The question being presented to voters on the ballot read: "Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota?"


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Support and opposition
In March 2012, Minnesota's Roman Catholic bishops had an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, who told them that preserving the traditional definition of marriage was a priority. Roman Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis organized leaders of different religious denominations in support of the amendment and committed his own church to spend $650,000 on behalf of its passage. In September he joined other religious leaders in a demonstration in support of the amendment at the State Capitol. The Minnesota Catholic Conference Marriage Defense Fund contributed more than half the $1.2 million raised by Minnesota for Marriage, the principal organization supporting the amendment, including $130,000 from the Knights of Columbus, a national Catholic organization.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Support and opposition
Immediately after the Minnesota legislature voted to put Amendment 1 on the ballot, Outfront Minnesota and Project 515, two groups working for LGBT rights in the state, formed Minnesotans United for All Families – the main campaign organization that would work to defeat the amendment. Over the course of a year and a half, Minnesotans United would raise and spend over $12 million, more than double the pro-amendment side. More importantly, the Minnesotans United campaign formed a coalition group of allies with almost 700 member organizations that included political parties, labor unions, veterans, civic groups and businesses like General Mills.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Support and opposition
The board and staff of the campaign reflected the same kind of diversity as its coalition partners and even included prominent Republicans. Drawing on lessons learned from past campaigns in other states, Minnesotans United did not cede the religious ground – it hired a faith director to reach out to communities of faith, and more than 100 of its coalition members were churches and other faith groups from around the state.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Support and opposition
The centerpiece of the Minnesotans United for All Families campaign became its huge grassroots effort to have conversations with the voters about marriage. Rather than focus on equal rights and fairness, as was done in previous campaigns, Minnesotans United and its thousands of volunteers, had personal conversations over the phones and face to face about how marriage had the same importance and meaning for both straight and same-sex couples.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Support and opposition
This messaging strategy, which was also used in the campaign's ad campaign, helped move conflicted voters and resulted in Minnesota being the first state, after 30 attempts, to defeat a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Minnesotans United is likely the biggest grassroots campaign in the state's history, having had 27,000 volunteers knock on over 400,000 doors and make over 900,000 phone calls in the final eight days of the campaign


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Support and opposition
The Minnesota arm of President Obama's presidential re-election campaign announced his opposition to this proposed constitutional amendment in April. Advertisements in opposition to the amendment also featured Minnesota Vikings football player Chris Kluwe.


2012 Minnesota Amendment 1, Opinion polls
Various public opinion surveys of Minnesota residents have asked questions regarding same-sex marriage. The questions vary, with some surveys referring directly to proposed Amendment and others asking more general questions.


2012 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 2012 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. They were led by second-year head coach Jerry Kill and played their home games at TCF Bank Stadium. They were a member of the Legends Division of the Big Ten Conference. They finished the season 6–7, 2–6 in Big Ten play to finish in a tie for fifth place in the Legends Division. They were invited to the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas where they were defeated by Texas Tech.


2012 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team, Roster
The preliminary roster is based on the previous season's roster and eligibility, along with incoming recruits. All numbers are from www.gophersports.com.


2012 Minnesota House of Representatives election
The 2012 Minnesota House of Representatives election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 2012, to elect members to the House of Representatives of the 88th Minnesota Legislature. A primary election was held in several districts on August 14, 2012.


2012 Minnesota House of Representatives election
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, defeating the majority of the Republican Party of Minnesota. This was the first election for the Republicans since it won a majority of seats in the 2010 election, after losing a majority to the DFL in the 2006 election. The new Legislature convened on January 8, 2013.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season
The 2012 WNBA season is the 14th season for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association. The Lynx are the defending WNBA Champions, having won the 2011 WNBA Finals over the Atlanta Dream. The Lynx qualified for the playoffs, and finished with the best record in the WNBA. On October 7, 2012, the Lynx won their second straight WNBA Western Conference championship, earning a spot in the 2012 WNBA finals.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Transactions, WNBA Draft
The following are the Lynx' selections in the 2012 WNBA Draft.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, First Half of Season
Expectations were high for the Lynx as they opened the 2012 season. The team returned all five starters from their 2011 championship season, including four all-stars. Those expectations were matched through the early part of the season, as the team set the WNBA record with 10 consecutive wins to start the season, before losing to Seattle on June 17. The team then won two consecutive games to run their record to 12-1.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, First Half of Season
July proved to be a difficult month. The team lost three straight to start the month, and lost forwards Devereaux Peters and Rebekkah Brunson to injuries. The team signed guard Julie Wojta, who had been drafted by the team but cut after training camp, to a 7-day contract to provide depth. The Lynx rebounded by winning back-to-back games over the Tulsa Shock, and went into the Summer Olympic Break with a 15-4 record.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, Olympics
Three members of the Lynx—Seimone Augustus, Maya Moore, and Lindsay Whalen—were members of the United States women's national basketball team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The three players were the most contributed by any WNBA squad. The team won gold during the games, the second medal for Augustus, and the first each for Moore and Whalen.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, Injuries
Seimone Augustus missed two games in June with a strained quadriceps muscle. Jessica Adair underwent arthroscopic surgery on her knee on June 21. Devereaux Peters and Rebekkah Brunson both went out with injuries in July.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, Second Half of Season
The Lynx returned to action on August 17, 2012, beating the Washington Mystics 98-69. They won their second game back, beating Tulsa 83-59 to clinch a berth in the playoffs. It was the earliest in a season the Lynx had ever clinched a playoff spot.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, Second Half of Season
The Lynx tied a WNBA record on September 7, when they came back from a 25-point deficit to defeat the Atlanta Dream in double overtime.


2012 Minnesota Lynx season, Season summary, Second Half of Season
The Lynx did not lose until September 11, when they fell to the Chicago Sky. By that point, the Lynx were comfortably ahead in the Western Conference standings; the team ultimately won the top overall seed in the playoffs, and matched a franchise record with 27 wins.


2012 Minnesota Senate election
The 2012 Minnesota Senate election was held in the U.S. state of Minnesota on November 6, 2012, to elect members to the Senate of the 88th and 89th Minnesota Legislatures. A primary election was held in several districts on August 14, 2012.


2012 Minnesota Senate election
The Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) won a majority of seats, defeating the majority of the Republican Party of Minnesota. This was the first election for the Republicans since it won a majority of seats in the 2010 election, its first since the return of partisan elections to the Senate in 1976. The new Legislature convened on January 8, 2013.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season
The 2012 Minnesota Stars FC season was the club's third year of existence and their first season under the simple moniker Minnesota Stars after being called NSC Minnesota Stars for their first two seasons of existence. The team played in the North American Soccer League, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid, for the second consecutive year.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season
Outside of NASL play, the Stars competed in the 2012 U.S. Open Cup, reaching the fourth round before losing to the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Background
The Minnesota Stars FC Started the 2012 Regular season as the defending NASL Champions. The home opener was scheduled at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome vs the defending NASL regular season champions, the Carolina RailHawks.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Background
The Stars were still leagued owned at the start of the season; this could have meant that the 2012 season could have been the last season for the franchise.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Background
On November 8, 2012, NASL announced that Dr. William McGuire would be the new owner of the Stars, saving the Stars from possible contraction.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Transfers, Winter
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Transfers, Winter
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Transfers, Summer
In:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2012 Minnesota Stars FC season, Transfers, Summer
Out:Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2012 Minnesota Swarm season
The 2012 Minnesota Swarm season was the eighth season of the Minnesota Swarm, a lacrosse team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota playing in the National Lacrosse League.


2012 Minnesota Swarm season
After a 3-3 start, the Swarm fired coach Mike Lines, naming Associate General Manager Joe Sullivan as the new head coach. No reason was given for the move.


2012 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


2012 Minnesota Swarm season, Transactions, Dispersal Draft
The Swarm chose the following players in the Boston Blazers dispersal draft:


2012 Minnesota Swarm season, Transactions, Entry draft
The 2011 NLL Entry Draft took place on September 21, 2011. The Swarm selected the following players:


2012 Minnesota Twins season
The 2012 Minnesota Twins season was the 52nd season for the franchise in Minnesota, and the 112th overall in the American League. The Twins wound up with a 66-96 record, 5th (last) place in the AL Central.


2012 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
On May 2, the Twins were no-hit for the fifth time in their history. Jered Weaver of the Anaheim Angels threw 121 pitches, striking out nine, walking one and allowing no hits. Four of the Twins' no-hit losses have occurred in California. Two of the no-hitters were perfect games (Catfish Hunter, 1968 and David Wells, 1998).


2012 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
Joe Mauer is the lone Minnesota selection to the All-Star Game, played July 10 in Kauffman Stadium. As a reserve catcher, he enters the game in the top of the eighth as a replacement first baseman and goes 1 for 1 with a single.


2012 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
On September 8, the Twins retired former manager Tom Kelly's number '10'. He is the seventh Twin so honored, joining Harmon Killebrew [3], Rod Carew [29], Tony Oliva [6], Kent Hrbek [14], Kirby Puckett [34] and Bert Blyleven [28]. The number '42' is retired across all of the major leagues in honor of Jackie Robinson.


2012 Minnesota Twins season, Regular season
Outfielder Josh Willingham wins the Silver Slugger Award for the only time in his career.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season
The 2012 season was the Minnesota Vikings' 52nd in the National Football League, as well as their second full season under head coach Leslie Frazier. They looked to improve upon their 3–13 season the year before, and did so after defeating the Tennessee Titans in Week 5; their win over the Houston Texans in Week 16 made this their first winning season since 2009.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season
The Vikings also made the playoffs for the first time since 2009 with a Week 17 win over the Green Bay Packers to give them a 10–6 regular season record, but were defeated by the same opponents in the Wild Card playoff round the following week. Adrian Peterson was named the league's Most Valuable Player after rushing for 2,097 yards, just nine yards short of breaking the single-season record held by Eric Dickerson since 1984.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season
On May 10, 2012, the Minnesota State Legislature approved a bill for a new stadium for the team that would see a new facility (later named U.S. Bank Stadium) constructed by 2016 and ensure the Vikings' presence in Minneapolis through the year 2046. The bill was signed by Governor Mark Dayton on May 14, and approved by the Minneapolis City Council by a vote of 7–6 on May 25.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Pre-draft transactions
The first major transactions of the 2012 offseason were the releases of veteran guards Steve Hutchinson and Anthony Herrera, and CB Cedric Griffin on March 10, as the Vikings began rebuilding their offensive line and secondary. Three days later, the team re-signed perennial backup QB Sage Rosenfels and DT Letroy Guion off their unrestricted free agents list. This was followed up with the signing of the Seattle Seahawks' unrestricted free agent TE John Carlson on a five-year contract.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Pre-draft transactions
The next week, the team brought in FB Jerome Felton, also an unrestricted free agent, from the Indianapolis Colts. They then released DT Remi Ayodele on March 21, but re-signed DT Fred Evans. March 26 was a big day for signings by the Vikings, with the re-signings of WR Devin Aromashodu and LB Erin Henderson, as well as the free agent acquisitions of CB Zack Bowman from the Chicago Bears and T Geoff Schwartz from the Carolina Panthers.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Pre-draft transactions
April saw very few transactions go through in anticipation of the 2012 NFL Draft at the end of the month. Nevertheless, the Vikings signed LB Marvin Mitchell and WR Jerome Simpson, despite the fact that Simpson would miss the first three games of the season for a violation of the NFL's substance abuse policy.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Offseason, Post-draft transactions
With the 2012 Draft over, the Vikings resumed their transactions in May, signing a number of undrafted free agents to their roster, and releasing RB Caleb King, following a short jail term. With the drafting of Blair Walsh, veteran kicker Ryan Longwell found himself surplus to requirements for the Vikings and he was released on May 7. By the start of June, all of the Vikings draft selections (with the exception of T Matt Kalil) had been signed to long-term contracts.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Preseason, Schedule
This was the first year the Vikings used a TV/radio simulcast for their preseason games.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Preseason, Game summaries, Week 2: vs. Buffalo Bills
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Preseason, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. San Diego Chargers
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 1: vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 3: vs. San Francisco 49ers
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 5: vs. Tennessee Titans
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 7: vs. Arizona Cardinals
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 8: vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
at Mall of America Field at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 10: vs. Detroit Lions
Chris Kluwe, Adrian Peterson and Jared Allen at the coin flip


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 14: vs. Chicago Bears
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Green Bay Packers
at Mall of America Field at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Green Bay Packers
Adrian Peterson rushed for 199 yards, coming up nine yards short of breaking the single season record by Eric Dickerson. This included 5 rushes for 36 yards on the final drive to set up the winning field goal by Blair Walsh. This game was rated #3 on the Top 20 NFL Games of 2012 on NFL.com as AP2K.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Regular season, Game summaries, Week 17: vs. Green Bay Packers
Blair Walsh and Larry Dean line up to kick off against Green Bay, December 30


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Postseason, Game summaries, NFC Wild Card Round: at Green Bay Packers
Having secured the NFC's #6 seed, the Vikings traveled to Lambeau Field for a rematch with the Packers. With the two teams meeting in the playoffs for only the second time ever, Blair Walsh capped the game's opening drive with a field goal to put the Vikings 3–0 up. However, the Packers then scored 24 unanswered points to take a 24–3 lead in the 3rd quarter. The Vikings tried to rally a comeback with a touchdown to make it 24–10, but it was too little, too late as time ran out for Minnesota.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl
Four Minnesota Vikings players were selected for the 2013 Pro Bowl: two on offense (running back partners Adrian Peterson and Jerome Felton), one on defense (DE Jared Allen) and one special teamer (K Blair Walsh). Of these, Peterson, Felton and Walsh were selected as starters, with Allen going as a reserve.


2012 Minnesota Vikings season, Pro Bowl
With the withdrawal of Dallas Cowboys LB DeMarcus Ware on January 10 because of a shoulder injury, Vikings LB Chad Greenway was called up to the NFC roster as a replacement. TE Kyle Rudolph was also added to the NFC roster for his first Pro Bowl two weeks later after Atlanta Falcons TE Tony Gonzalez dropped out due to injury. Rookie Matt Kalil was also added later as a replacement for the Washington Redskins' tackle, Trent Williams, yet another casualty of injury. Rudolph was named the game's MVP.


2012 Minnesota elections
Elections were held in Minnesota on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Primary elections took place on August 14, 2012.


2012 Minnesota elections, Federal, United States Senate
Democratic–Farmer–Labor candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar stood for re-election. She was opposed by Republican state Representative Kurt Bills.


2012 Minnesota elections, Federal, United States House of Representatives
All eight seats of the Minnesota delegation in the United States House of Representatives were up for election in 2012. All eight incumbents were seeking re-election.


2012 Minnesota elections, State, Ballot measures
Two constitutional amendments regarding same-sex marriage and voter identification were on the ballot.


2012 Minnesota elections, State, Minnesota Senate
All 67 seats in the Minnesota Senate were up for election in 2012.


2012 Minnesota elections, State, Minnesota House of Representatives
All 134 seats in the Minnesota House of Representatives were up for election in 2012.


2012 Minnesota elections, Local
Many elections for local offices were also held on November 6, 2012.


2012 Minor Counties Championship
The 2012 Minor Counties Championship was the 108th Minor Counties Cricket Championship season. It was contested through two divisions: Eastern and Western. Cornwall became Minor County Champions for first time.


2012 Minor Counties Championship, Standings
Teams receive 16 points for a win, 4 for a draw, or 8 for the team batting last in a draw with the scores level. Teams also received 12 points for a win, 6 for a draw and 4 points for losing a match reduced to a single innings. Matches abandoned without any play award 8 points to each team. Bonus points (a maximum of 4 batting points and 4 bowling points) may be scored during the first 90 overs of each team's first innings.


2012 Misano Superbike World Championship round
The 2012 Misano Superbike World Championship round was the seventh round of the 2012 Superbike World Championship season and the sixth round of the 2012 Supersport World Championship season. It took place on the weekend of June 8–10, 2012 at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli, in Misano Adriatico, Italy.


2012 Mississippi Hound Dogs season
The 2012 Mississippi Hound Dogs season was the 1st and only season for the United Indoor Football League (UIFL) franchise.


2012 Mississippi Hound Dogs season
On March 20, 2012, head coach Martino Theus was fired after an 0-3 start for the Hound Dogs. Former indoor player, Eric Bingham was hired as his replacement. However, when the UIFL stepped in when owner Marty Cooper couldn't afford the team, the UIFL took over the team and named Martino Theus the head coach once again. The Hound Dogs cancelled all remaining home games, but fulfilled all their remaining road games.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team
The 2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team represented Mississippi State University in the NCAA Division I baseball season of 2012. The team was coached by John Cohen, in his 13th year as a collegiate head coach, and his 4th at Mississippi State.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team
Mississippi State wins the 2012 SEC Tournament Championship winning a school record 5 games against 1 loss, is then eliminated in the NCAA Tournament in the Tallahassee Regional, and finishes ranked in some polls.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Pre-Season
The 2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs Baseball team was looking to continue rebuilding after the 2011 MSU Baseball team had a winning record and returned to the NCAA Tournament, both for the first time in 4 years. The 2012 MSU baseball team welcomes a recruiting class ranked 14th by Baseball America, which is the third consecutive top 20 ranked recruiting class.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Pre-Season
The SEC coaches pick this team to finish 5th in the West division. The team is not ranked in the top 25 in any of the four major preseason polls. The team went on to finish tied for 2nd in the SEC West, to win the SEC Tournament and at one point is ranked as high as 14th.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Pre-Season
Senior RHP Caleb Reed is selected 1st team NCBWA Preseason All-American. Reed is also selected 1st team SEC Preseason All-Conference by College Sports Madness, while sophomore OF C.T. Bradford, and sophomore SS Adam Frazier are selected 2nd team.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Regular season
Going 4–0 to open the season, they were ranked 18th on February 27, 2012 by Perfect Game. They will end the regular season ranked as high as 21st (See Ranking Movements below).


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Regular season
Mississippi State entered the final series of the regular season at 31–21, 13–14 in conference play. In that final series, they swept, at that time, #2 Kentucky, at home, in Starkville, to finish the regular season 34–21, 16–14. For the regular season, they won all five conference series at home, including a sweep of Tennessee in addition to Kentucky, and lost all five series on the road, including being swept by South Carolina.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Regular season
Games Schedule, results, and box scores can be found at the reference.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, SEC Tournament
In the SEC Tournament, with all rankings according to the final Coaches' Poll, Mississippi State beat #3 Arkansas then #11 LSU, before losing to #19 Kentucky; they then beat #11 LSU, again, #19 Kentucky, winning the rematch, and #25 Vanderbilt to win the SEC Tournament Championship. SS Adam Frazier is the Tournament MVP. Frazier, OF Demarcus Henderson, and P Jonathan Holder make the All-Tournament team. Frazier, in 6 games, hits 0.522 with one double, has an OBP of 0.560, scores 4 runs, has 3 rbi, and successfully hits a sacrifice bunt. Holder, in 4 games, has 3 saves and 1 win, giving up 0 runs.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, SEC Tournament
In the championship game Mississippi State beats Vanderbilt, shutting them out 3–0. Pitchers Brandon Woodruff, Ross Mitchell, Caleb Reed, and Chris Stratton combine for the shutout.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, SEC Tournament
After, going 5–1 in, and winning the SEC Tournament, at 39–22 overall, they are ranked as high as 14th by Baseball America.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, NCAA tournament
In the NCAA Tournament, Mississippi State is regionally seeded 2nd, in the Tallahassee Regional. They lose in an upset to 3rd seed Samford, then win to eliminate 4th seed UAB, and then lose to be eliminated by 3rd seed Samford. In the losing effort, four Mississippi State players make the 11 man,  Regional All-Tournament team, Matthew Britton (FR 2B), Adam Frazier (SO SS), Wes Rea (FR 1B), and Mitch Slauter (JR C).


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, NCAA tournament
After the post season ends, going 1–2 in the NCAA Tournament, they are ranked as high as 22nd by Baseball America.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Season Awards
RHP Kendall Graveman is the first Mississippi State player to be named to this team, since the conference started this all-defensive team in 2008. He only committed 1 error in 89.2 innings pitched.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Season Awards
RHP Jonathan Holder saw limited action as a true freshman, in 2012. He did lose the game, in relief, to eliminate Mississippi State from the NCAA Tournament. But at one point, he set a school record scoreless streak at 27.1 innings, which was his entire start to the season. Overall, he had an ERA of 0.32, 30 strikeouts, and 5 base-on-balls, in 28.1 innings. The only runs given up were 2 runs, 1 earned, in 1.0 inning pitched, in the NCAA Regional elimination game. Overall, he went 2–1 with 9 saves. In the last 11 games, in which he appeared, he had 8 saves and went 1–1.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Season Awards
RHP Chris Stratton went 11–2 with a 2.38 ERA with 127 strikeouts and 25 base-on-balls in 109.2 innings. He was the first Consensus All-American for Mississippi State since Will Clark in 1985.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, MLB Draft
NOTE: Kendall Graveman will not sign, finishes his senior year at Mississippi State and then goes in the 8th round the next year.


2012 Mississippi State Bulldogs baseball team, Ranking movements
^ Collegiate Baseball ranks 40 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. † NCBWA ranks 35 teams in their preseason poll, but only ranks 30 teams weekly during the season. * New poll was not released for this week so for comparison purposes the previous week's ranking is inserted in this week's slot.