When it comes to sporting occasions in the USA, it seems to me (note: a young lad from Reading, England) none seem to achieve the spectacle that appears to accompany the AFC-NFC World Championship Game, also known as The Super Bowl. This is no disrespect to other leagues; it's just...

He may only be 12 years old, but Tom Schaar from Malibu, California is already big news within the world of skateboarding.

A heady few weeks has seen the youngster achieve one of the "holy grails" of the sport, by becoming the...

It would seem that record breaking is all around us, quite literally. It is remarkable that this year two men will be attempting records that will take them respectively as high and as low as is humanly possible within the confines of this planet, within only a few months of...

It is an accepted fact that any competitive environment is a natural breeding ground for rivalries. Bird/Johnson... Ali/Frazier... Palmer/Nicklaus... Navratilova/Graf... Joachim/Furman... wait, who? Joa-what? Hang on, are you saying you have never heard of Suresh Arulanantham Joachim, the record warrior from Canada who has held over fifty Guinness World Records,...

Well it's been a hell of a few weeks. Interviews, public appearances, photo calls, even a visit to the Huffington Post offices (salud Buck!). In the space of 10 days I've met the woman with the longest fingernails (19 ft 9 in), the man with the longest beard (7 ft...

Next week is the start of Guinness World Records season. What I mean by this is that as of next Monday our well-oiled machine goes on the offensive and initiates a campaign that will make sure you see, hear and feel as much as possible about the weird and wonderful...

So the new Guinness World Records 2012 book is about to launch. We are in fact three weeks away. But this is no proselytizing sermon about why people should or shouldn't buy the book; no canvassing of opinion as to the virtues of record-breaking in the 21st century (we'll get...