Everybody knows how a yo-yo works. It's two disks mounted on an axle attached to a piece of string, and it goes up and down if you throw it right. But what about when the two disks and the axle aren't ...

Brian Melford knows how to handle a yo-yo. The 27-year-old Bronx man has more than 300 of them. Some, he designed himself. By day, he’s an aide to City Councilman Andy King. But in his spare time, ...

You may think you know everything there is to know about yo-yos, and there’s a good chance you know the basics, but there’s an even better chance there is a bigger, more fascinating world of the yo-yo ...

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 ...

Got an extra 400 bucks? How about spending it on a yo-yo? A really nice yo-yo, a state-of-the-art, forged-magnesium-alloy, ultralong-spinning yo-yo. Later this year, Duncan Toys, a seller of ...

Welcome to the spin zone! Dozens of high-strung competitors will swing down to Coney Island this weekend for the New York State Yo-Yo Contest. The competition on Dec. 8 will bring together the best yo ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -It is a safe bet to say many of you reading this played with a yo-yo when you were a kid. "It is just fun, its a stress reliever," said Virginia Beach resident Jonathan Saelens.