Just wanted to say we had a wonderful time camping last weekend! My girls have talked a lot about what we did and how much fun they had and that makes us very happy! Keep offering all the great Wood County park programs, they are a tremendous value to our community!
Another 54,000 work in the wholesale trade of sporting goods, and 302,300 in retail sporting goods stores. Sports, recreation and related supplies and services have been among the greatest new job engines over the past three years, and most of these sectors are up substantially in job count since 2011.
Full Answer. As of 2012, Americans spend an additional $35 billion per year on sports-related merchandise, including football gear and golf balls. Men made 60.9 percent of these sports-related purchases, while women made 39.1 percent of the purchases. Of that, $8 billion is spent by Americans 16 and older on merchandise bearing sports logos. $400 billion is spent by Americans per year on sports-related gambling, although $300 billion of that amount comes from illegal and nonregulated gambling.