Wade started his ball back in 1975, when he worked at a downtown bank. He noticed a security guard's rubber-band ball and asked how it was made. Figure it out yourself, the guard replied rudely.

In 2008, a Lauderhill man named Joel Waul earned the Guinness World Record for having made the world’s largest rubber band ball. Waul named it “Megaton,” and it stands six feet, seven inches tall, ...

She wrapped it around the “waist” of the rubber-band ball to measure the circumference: It’s 35 inches. By still another standard, it’s a four-year assemblage.

The ball now stands 5 feet tall, with a 14-foot waist, and weighs an estimated 2,700 pounds. The record was set last year, at 2,524 pounds, by Tony Evans of Swansea, Wales.

His rubber-band- ball-building days will end once his name appears between the world's largest collection of refrigerator magnets (12,000) and the world's longest scarf (20 miles, 13 feet long).

To keep adding to the size of the ball, Waul asked companies that make giant rubber bands to donate to his cause. This afternoon, workers from Ripley's will use a crane to hoist the ball onto the ...

The world's largest rubber band ball stands six feet seven inches tall and has a circumference of 25 feet. It took five years for Joel Waul of Lauderhill to create, weighs more than 9,400 pounds ...

Golf's top pros are in the final rounds of the 2012 PGA Championship this weekend in South Carolina, so let's take a look at the fascinating history of one fundamental piece of equipment.

EUGENE, Ore. -- It's a stretch to break the record, but Steve Milton wants to make the world's largest ball of rubber bands. Milton, 26, an estimator for a local insulation company, was showing ...

Steve Milton of Eugene, Ore., stands next to his 4,594-pound rubber band ball that was certified as the world's largest by Guinness World Records officials during a weigh-in Tuesday in Chicago.

Weighing in at 120 pounds may have something to do with that. “I don’t do a lot with the rubber band ball except shove it out of the way as needed,” said Kerri Banks.

OfficeMax is transporting the World’s Largest Rubber Band Ball in early-November from the Eugene, Oregon garage of creator Steve Milton to downtown Chicago for its official November 21, 11:00 a ...