Almost every weekend, somewhere in the United States, a group of yo-yoers assembles to be judged on their skills. The most skillful of them move out of their city groups to compete in state, then ...

America’s best yo-yo player is from Portland, at least as of last week, when 27-year-old Aliyah Tan took home the title of 2026 National Yo-Yo Champion in Las Vegas on June 28. Tan has been competing ...

For most people, yo-yos are a toy that they played with sporadically as children until they got too frustrated, or the string got too tangled to continue. For others, it’s a hobby, a community and, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EAST BRUNSWICK – For Alex Tai, 16, of Marlboro, his last move in his set was the most difficult. With two diabolos, also known as ...

Freeze a yo-yo competitor from Saturday’s competition and the imagery would have been breathtakingly geometric. Yet the performances were nothing short of fluid. The U.S. National Yo-Yo Championship ...

As Joseph Harris, one of the country's top-ranked yo-yo competitors, waited his turn to compete in the Bay Area Classic in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon, a kid watched Harris warm up and asked a ...

Katelyn Anton twirled her yo-yo, wrapping the string around her index finger. She let the string unwind and shot the toy forward, then backward. Within seconds, the 16-year-old was tossing the yo-yo ...

This year Adam Reeder, 13, of Salisbury, has earned his place to fight among the best in the world for the title of World Yo-Yo Champion. He is going to Orlando, Fla., Aug. 2-4 to test his skills ...