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 ...

How does a yo-yo work? asks a reader.Can you Hop the Fence, Milk the Cow, Ride the Horse, and then Walk the Dog -- without ever setting foot on a farm? If so, you're probably familiar with yo-yo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...