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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some yo-yos "sing," although they're really just one-note performers. 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 ...

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.

About two years ago, Perry Taga tried his hand at a new sport. He couldn’t stop. He carried a yo-yo wherever he went. Summers and weekends, he spent up to five hours a day spinning and twisting and ...

Jeff Coons was 8 or 9 when he met his first yo-yo. Little did he know how far it would take him. “The yo-yo has been a central figure in my life,” said the 2008 graduate of Millbury Memorial ...

The Cub Scouts in Pack 295 knew all about the two-dimensional world of the video game Minecraft, but they had never “pulled the puppy by the tail.” Some of them had never even held a yo-yo in their ...

This is Janos Karancz who won the 1A division. Performance started. I will throw the yo-yos downwards and idle, and during this time I will skillfully manipulate 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 ...