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.

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 ...

CHICO — Can you Rock the Baby? Split the Atom? Throw a Spirit Bomb, Reach for the Moon or land a Kamikaze? The more than 80 registered players participating in the 2010 National Yo-Yo Championship can ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... 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 ...

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 ...

The 2011 World Yo-Yo Championships wrapped up in Orlando, Florida last Saturday. Here are the winning performers from each of division—all with their own hardware and stunt styles—pulling off tricks ...