Alex Dias, 11, performs a trick with his yo-yo at his home in Dunlap Thursday. Ann Dias can always find her son in a crowd. All she has to do is listen for the whirr and zing of a yo-yo string. "He yo ...

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 ...

You may think you know everything there is to know about yo-yos, and there’s a good chance you know the basics, but there’s an even better chance there is a bigger, more fascinating world of the yo-yo ...

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 ...

Evan Nagao of Hawaii won the 2018 World YoYo Contest, held Aug. 9 through 12 in Shanghai, performing to Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Freebird." The four-minute performance includes a fast-paced array of string ...

Welcome to the spin zone! Dozens of high-strung competitors will swing down to Coney Island this weekend for the New York State Yo-Yo Contest. The competition on Dec. 8 will bring together the best yo ...

These are not your grandfather's, your father's or even your own yo-yos anymore. Today's yo-yos are "ridiculously amazing," says Joseph Harris, 21, who won second place in last year's national ...

Everybody knows how a yo-yo works. It's two disks mounted on an axle attached to a piece of string, and it goes up and down if you throw it right. But what about when the two disks and the axle aren't ...