The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation spares little expense when covering the Stanley Cup playoffs. Think Super Bowl hype in the US. Need some evidence? Check out this video montage the CBC prepared to open the game one broadcast this year. Somehow they compressed the excitement of the game and some of the greatest moments of the sport into two and a half minutes.

The clock read 4: 09: 43 when the first bomb went off in Boston nearly two weeks ago. The New York Times managed to pull a screen shot from NBC’s footage of the race and it’s an eerie contrast of normalcy and impending chaos.

So I finally got my hands on a more substantial preview from the new show I’m co-hosting. Hopefully this will get you pumped up for the premiere, which is now set for Tuesday, May 14th at 9:00 p.m. ET on CNBC.

We’ve taken quite a hiatus from our daily trivia contests here at Pat’s Papers. But now that the weather is warming up, it seems like the perfect time to get things going again. Which is why we’re delighted to announce our new weekly trivia contest, a collaboration with TrivWorks and The New York Post Headlines Tour.

Canada was the subject of a Brian Williams’ tribute this weekend, thanks to one of our most accomplished citizens, Commander Chris Hadfield. Hadfield, who is now in command of the International Space Station, has made it his hobby to tweet amazing photos back to Earth, including this one of Manhattan on Saturday morning. VIDEO

I’m one of two co-hosts for a new CNBC reality competition series called “Crowd Rules.”  The format is really simple.  Three small business make tell their stories in front of a crowd of 100.  With a $50,000 prize on the line, the entrepreneurs must convince the crowd that their business would get the biggest boost from a win.

My Twitter feed lit up this afternoon with the news that my friend and colleague Ali Velshi is leaving CNN after a 12-year run.  This, briefly, is the story of how that run began.

I feel obligated to add another profession to my resume after being forwarded a tweet this weekend. Now my CV will read: news anchor, trivia host, Cupid.

So there’s an exciting new incentive to buy tickets for TrivWorks’ Ultimate Choose-Your-Favorite-Decade Trivia Showdown on Wednesday, March 20, and it’s only five words: New. Kids. On. The. Block.