PUBLISHING NEWS & NOTES: NHL JOINS THE FUN WITH TOTAL SPORTS

          The NHL has licensed Total Sports to produce "Total
     Hockey," a comprehensive hockey encyclopedia.  The book will
     contain complete playing records of every player in league
     history.  It will be co-published with KC-based Andrews
     McMeel Publishing, and is expected to run around 1,600
     pages.  Look for "Total Hockey" this September (NHL).
          NOTES: The Source plans to launch a sports title in
     September called The Source Sports, which "will also have an
     urban hiphop orientation" (MEDIAWEEK, 1/26)....Two new books
     on NASCAR: Ballantine publishes "Wide Open: Days and Nights
     On the NASCAR Tour" by ESPN Magazine's Shaun Assael, while
     Wiley Books has released "The NASCAR Way: The Business That
     Drives The Sport," by Robert Hagstrom (THE DAILY).