It may not be an Olympic sport yet, but yo-yo play is serious business. Especially in Cleveland this week, where the world’s most skilled yo-yo players are gathering for The World Yo-Yo Contest. The ...

Yo-yo champion Harrison Lee explains yo-yo tricks in 26 levels of difficulty. Starting with tricks using an unresponsive yo-yo, Harrison progresses until he's popping the yo-yo into the air, and ...

BURLINGTON - "Sleep it," Judith Schulz ordered. With those words, three silver-colored yo-yos dropped to the end of their strings and hung there, stalled but still spinning. The three boys holding the ...

Yo-yo master Isaac Sams displays one of his tricks in Buckhannon, W.Va. Sams, who has been slinging a yo-yo around since age 10, is a self-taught yo-yo junkie, getting most of his inspiration from ...

Andra Cernavskis Luke Renner has been playing with yo-yos since he was in junior high school. Years later, he has managed to become a yo-yo master and used his hobby to produce a full-fledged kids ...

Bay Area residents will have a chance to unwind at the 2008 California State Yo-Yo Championships on Sept. 6 at the Exploratorium. Participants can meet national and international yo-yo champions, ...

SEATTLE — Say the yo-yo had never been invented, or hadn’t leapfrogged from the Philippines to America, or Pedro Flores hadn’t crafted a “slip string” to make the wooden doughnut spin in its sleep so ...

The contest features various styles of yo-yo play, with each contestant doing a performance set to music. Yo-yo like a pro: Inside the World Yo-Yo Contest in Cleveland It may not be an Olympic sport ...