Platinum
$10,000
- Private pre-dinner visit
- 12 complimentary tickets
- 4 reserved parking passes
- Preferred Seating
The annual Mississippi College Athletics Dinner has become the most important night of the year for the athletic department. Over the past 18 years, the Choctaws athletics dinners have raised more than $2 million, including more than $220,000 last year.
The money raised at this event has always made a huge impact on the athletic department, and the support will continue to be vital as the Choctaws and Lady Choctaws look to compete in the GSC and on a national level. This year, Mississippi College is welcoming announcer Tim Brando as our featured speaker.
One of the most recognizable voices in college sports, Tim Brando joined FOX Sports in 2014 as a play-by-play announcer for the network’s college football and college basketball coverage. Brando has called a variety of sports throughout his prolific career, including college football and basketball, MLB, NBA and golf, and he was one of the most prominent voices of the NCAA Tournament beginning in 1996.
Before going to FOX Sports, Brando spent 18 years with CBS Sports as studio host of its College Football Today and At The Half studio shows. He also handled play-by-play duties for CBS’s coverage of SEC college football and for the NFL on CBS (1998-2002). He began his tenure at CBS in 1996 as one of the network’s voices of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, a role he held through 2013. He also served as the lead play-by-play voice for Raycom’s coverage of SEC and ACC basketball and has hosted Raycom’s Emmy Award-winning nationally syndicated show Football Saturdays.
Prior to joining CBS, Brando spent eight years at ESPN, where he was a play-by-play announcer and studio host of SportsCenter, the network’s halftime show (1986-1994) and its coverage of the NCAA Tournament (1987- 1990). From 1994-96, he covered the NBA for TNT, including the NBA Playoffs. He also called Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks games for SportsSouth. In addition, from 1995-2001, Brando was the preseason voice of the Carolina Panthers.
From 2001-2015, Brando hosted the popular radio program, the Tim Brando Show, which developed into one of the most respected college sports shows in the country. It originally debuted as a nationally syndicated sports talk radio show before being simulcast by CBS Sports Network in 2011 and launching on SiriusXM in 2013.
On the links, Brando hosted digital coverage for CBS’s presentation of the Masters from 2012 to 2013 and served as the lead television announcer for the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Champions Tour event on CBS in 2012.
In 2018, Brando received the Richard M. Uray-Alpha Epsilon Rho Award for Lifetime Achievement, presented by the National Broadcasting Society-Alpha Epsilon Rho.
Brando was named the winner of the prestigious Lindsey Nelson Award in 2014, a national honor given annually to a college football broadcaster. In 2009, he was awarded the coveted Jake Wade Award, given annually by the College Sports Information Directors Association of America (CoSIDA) to a national media member for outstanding promotion of intercollegiate athletics.
Brando was born in and resides in Shreveport, Louisiana, with his wife. He earned a bachelor’s degree in radio/television management from Northeast Louisiana University (now the University of Louisiana-Monroe). His father, Hub Brando, was an announcer at KCIJ in Shreveport.
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Questions about sponsorship? Contact Tim Fritts, Assistant Athletic Director for Development at 601.925.7826 or tfritts@mc.edu.