JACKSON - This year's Second Annual Dinner of Champions just got a little "sweeter." Anyone who purchases a \$100 plate for this year's event will have their name entered in a special drawing for two lower-level Allstate Sugar Bowl tickets for Jan. 1, 2010 in the Louisiana Superdome.

The dinner will take place at 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12 at the Fondren Auditorium with special guest speaker Ken "The Snake" Stabler, 15-year NFL veteran with the Oakland Raiders, Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. 

Stabler threw for 27,938 yards and 194 touchdowns in 184 career games, earning the 1976 Bert Bell MVP Trophy (Maxwell Club) as the league's Player of the Year.

This will mark the second Dinner of Champions and first since Feb. 6, 2007, when Millsaps raised over \$100,000 at the Sparkman Building at the Agriculture & Forestry Museum on Lakeland Drive. The fundraiser brought in more than 170 alumni and guests, with about 75 student-athletes and more than a dozen athletic staff members filling in as waiters, hosts and even parking attendants.

All proceeds from the Dinner of Champions banquet go directly to the 18 Millsaps athletic programs. For more information about this year's event, or to give to the athletic department at Millsaps, please contact Jim Page at (601) 974-1196.