Biography Curt Pires is the owner of CAP Sports Group, LLC; a sports media company that specializes in creating unique business plans to fit the individual client. CAP Sports offers one-stop solutions based upon real experience in collegiate and professional sports, as well as event and network media management. Pires spent nearly 14 years at ESPN, Inc. in many different facets of the company including syndication sales and production, regional and national programming and communications. He headed ESPN’s efforts to create a syndication sales arm in 2002 and lead the company’s regional sports network strategy including the syndication of ESPNEWS. He refined and developed ESPN’s strategy for syndication of ESPN-branded television programming and negotiated contracts with all major MSO’s and team-owned networks. Pires had served as director of programming, overseeing ESPN Regional Television’s Big East football and basketball syndication programming efforts, as well as distribution from 1995-2002. He also played an integral part for the rights acquisition team for all ESPN networks during that period. Before joining, ESPN, Pires worked for the U.S. Fencing Association as director of publicity, and held the positions of assistant sports information director and sports information director at Columbia University and Westfield State College, respectively. Pires is a graduate of Springfield College and a native of New Bedford, MA. He lives with his wife Suzanne and three children -- Sam, Gaby and Gracyn in Charlotte North Carolina.