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 ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WVEC) --- Jonathan Saelens a local yo-yo expert. Friday, he showed 13News Now reporter Philip Townsend what it takes to be a true yo-yo pro. Philip has been a yo-yo hobbyist for years ...

At the European Yo-Yo Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, last March, Evan Nagao set his routine to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” It was an odd choice considering what his fellow competitors ...

He picked up a yo-yo at 8 years old, and now Hunter Feuerstein is spinning it into a global spotlight. Feuerstein will compete in this year's World Yo-Yo Championship in Prague. With a daily grind ...

Thomas C. Reyes, one of the last of the yo-yo demonstrators who traveled the country popularizing the novelty toy in the early 1930s, died Friday of pancreatic cancer at the Veterans Affairs Medical ...

America owes its fascination with the yo-yo mainly to Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr., who spotted it while on a business trip to San Francisco in 1928. It was being used by Pedro Flores, a ...