While some mass circulation magazines are having their troubles, with advertisers if not readers, specialty magazines are springing up all over, aimed at particular regions, races or interests. A sampling of newcomers:
BLACK SPORTS is a 50¢ monthly dedicated to providing depth and dimension to the coverage of black athletes—"something beyond salary figures and statistics," in the words of Publisher Allan Barren, a bush-bearded black from New Jersey who once ran a computer company. The first issue adds little to the public's considerable knowledge of such obvious star subjects as pro basketball's Lew Alcindor and Oscar Robertson and football's Matt Snell....
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