This post is for the local Connecticut readers who are golfers and are interested in helping out a local community college.

On May 28th, the Middlesex Community College Foundation will be holding a golf tournament to raise funds for the foundation. The foundation raises support for student scholarships, faculty development, instructional equipment, and public lectures and programs that contribute to the quality of life here in Connecticut.

If you're interested, head over the Middlesex Community College Foundation website for more information.

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Before we get going here, I want to thank everyone for their support during this time for me.

Secondly, I want to thank Steve and Matt from Fenway West for covering while I underwent my surgery. It's deeply appreciated.

If you hadn't heard, on March 20th I underwent aortic valve replacement surgery to replace my aortic heart valve. There's no need for the back story anymore.

Of the three options my surgeon and I discussed, it turned out to be the worst case scenario where he would have to do the full open heart (cracking sternum).

From there the surgery went as perfectly and smoothly as we could have hoped and each day I'm getting better. While I haven't started my rehab just yet (April 8), I am able to do a little more each day.

It's still a long road and a road I'm ready to drive down.

I have had surgery in the past and bounced back quickly. I can honestly say that I figured I'd miss a day or two of the site after surgery. I believed this so much I had my brother bring my computer to the hospital. Boy was I wrong as this surgery was so different than anything I've experienced.

The plan going forward is to slowly get thing back to normal.

Red Sox posts will consist of any breaking news, a day of game lineup post and a morning link dump. Now I can't guarantee the morning link dump will happen every day right away but that's the goal I'm working towards. The Red Sox minor league posts

Patriots posts will continue from Steve as normal. It'll get busier with the NFL Draft coming up.

UConn posts I will work back in to as well. With the UConn women playing in the regional finals tomorrow, we'll be starting back up our coverage. Not sure how it's going to work, but I'll figure something out.

The goal here is to get things running like they were before.

The ultimate goal is resume my life normally like I had in the past before all this started.

So once again, thanks to Steve and Matt. And thanks to everyone for their support.

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I just wanted to let you all know I got an email from Ian's family and his surgery went well.  He will return to the blog when he can.

So this is good news and I as well as all of you wish him well in his recovery! 

SOX & Dawgs established Carl Everett’s Crazy Hall of Fame in 2007 and its members are, like any Hall of Fame, in rarified air.  Only this air lacks a lot of common sense and is full of batshit crazy.  In fact that along with the incident happening on or in relation to the field of play is the only way to get into this Hall.  We don’t induct folks based on off the field incidents like spousal abuse, DUI, dog fighting, etc.

In the five years since the Hall was established it has 14 Charter Members and now 50 Regular Members.

To see the Carl Everett’s Crazy Hall of Fame Class of 2013, please click on the continue reading button below if you're on the home page.

I know I've fallen behind on the site and there is a reason why. And no it's not the fact I'm shutting down the site.

Here is the link: Health News Password to post is: ian

You may have noticed last week that I went "missing" for a few days. And while you may have seen some posts go up from those days, I can tell you they are back dated as I started working back on the site Saturday night.

There is a reason why. And I do want to explain because there's going to be times over the coming days and weeks where I may "disappear" again.

First off, I am not looking for sympathy or anything of that nature. I have a pretty loyal following here and some of you I even know personally. After some serious thought, I wanted to let everyone know why.

For now, I am going to keep the details of what is going on private. But I am battling a medical issue which is serious but fixable. When I am ready to let people know what is going on I will do just that. That'll probably happen when I know more myself and what the process is going to be.

While you may say I don't owe anyone an explanation, I felt as though I did.

I appreciate everyone who follows the site whether through an RSS feed, Twitter, Facebook, family and friends. And that means a lot to me. Without y'all, SOX & Dawgs wouldn't have become what it is today.

You may have also noticed in the past month or so that I started a footwear category. In the coming weeks, a new site will launch on the Bloguin network called Mo Better Shoes. We are still in the design phase of the site and once that site is live, all of the old footwear posts will go to that site and continue to be posted there. You can follow that site on Twitter @mobettershoes.

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With Nike announcing on Monday that Rory McIlroy has joined their stable of athletes in Nike Golf, Nike has also released a great spot with McIlroy and Tiger Woods.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from us here at SOX & Dawgs!

Please take a moment of your day today to remember the people who gave their lives on this day back in 1941 defending our country. If you ever go to Hawaii, I highly advise going over to Pearl Harbor and doing the tour (I've been twice).

It will leave you speechless.

Also please take a moment to read this former reporter's story about Honolulu after Pearl Harbor. This story was written 71 years ago but was never filed.

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