SAN FRANCISCO — Nabil “Billy” Kishek admits it. There are days when he dreams of burning the ball. He has thrown up his arms in exhausted frustration and told his brother, “I’m finished.” But such an ...

A Florida man hopes to make it into the record books with his massive rubber band ball. Joel Waul has been twisting, wrapping and stretching rubber bands for years in the hope of building a ...

With all due respect to The Spinners and T.I., prepare yourself for the new rubber-band man. Steve Milton, through concentration and perseverance, has created a 3,300-pound ball comprised of rubber ...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. “The rubber bands … sometimes they’ll break. That hurts,” said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber band ...

LAUDERHILL, Fla. — Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that’s the size of a Smart car? It’s Joel Waul’s rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years ...

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 his ...

Postal worker Connie Brown adds another a rubber band Thursday to the big ball at the downtown Vancouver post office. Brown said she has been working on the project for more than four years. (Natalie ...

Plenty of us have stuff we have been hanging on to for a long time and maybe need a little push to get rid of. For one East Tennessee man, the recent flood was just that push, after 11-inches of water ...

It's over six and a half feet tall, 25 feet in circumference, weighs nearly 10,000 pounds, and everybody says it stinks. No, we're not talking about Kanye West's ego, we're talking about Joel Waul's ...

Building a huge ball out of more than 175,000 rubber bands is dangerous business. Really. "The rubber bands ... sometimes they'll break. That hurts," said Steve Milton, whose 4,594-pound rubber band ...

NPR librarian Kee Malesky has been dubbed "the source of all human knowledge," saving NPR hosts and reporters from themselves for 20 years. She shares her adventures from the reference desk in a ...

Look, over there. Under that blue tarp in a suburban driveway. That thing that's the size of a Smart car? It's Joel Waul's rubber band ball. Waul has spent the last six years carefully wrapping and ...