Forget about little kids walking the dog. The 21st-century yo-yo scene features the grim-faced concentration of young men in hoodies and skullcaps slinging yo-yos behind their backs and weaving ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Dana Bennett has won national and world championships for his yo-yo skills.

One of the great all-time yo-yo men, Bernard Akers, died last week at the age of 80, a loss that, although it did not go unreported, went undiscussed. I want to correct that. A yo-yo man is a guy who ...

Yo-yo aficionados and fans converged on Orlando last weekend for the World Yo-Yo Contest, an annual competition designed to showcase the world's best yo-yoers and "support and cultivate the ...

There was a lot of spin going on in Washington, D.C., this week, and not just the political kind. Some of the world's best yo-yo artists, part of Team YoYoJam, performed at the Smithsonian's National ...

SHERWOOD -- Colin Leland can't remember the last time he went an entire day without using a yo-yo. The 26-year-old Tualatin native figures it was sometime in 2001. That's when he first started ...

There was no need to head to Vancouver to see a world-class competition on Saturday - the Pacific Northwest Yo-Yo Championships were right here in Seattle. Your old plastic yo-yo had no place at these ...

Practicing the yo-yo has its ups and downs, but when it gives dad and daughter a chance to bond, they’ve got the world on a string. Whether walking the dog around the world or taking the elevator up ...

He doesn’t have to put a spin on what he does. Alex Hattori’s hobby does that automatically. At the age of 15, the Torrance youth has become the yo-yo king. He has his own sponsor, his own trading ...