The hot sectors cooled and the cool sectors didn’t warm up much as the global sports equipment market rose a mere 0.9% last year to $74,252 million from $73,557 million, a pace that did not even exceed the anemic 1.1% increase in the equipment market from the year before. Buffeted by the rash of bankruptcies, the U.S. equipment market underperformed the global market with a 0.4% increase to $33,470 million from $33,320 million while the international market grew at a torrid 1.4% growth rate to $40,782 million from $40,237 million.

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