CHICO — Local yo-yo champion Gentry Stein can once again add “world champion” to his list of titles. He won the title at the 2019 World Yo-Yo Contest in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday. Over 200 qualified ...

To most people, a yo-yo is just a toy. But to Gentry Stein, the whirling bundle of string, plastic, and precision ball-bearings can become much more in the right hands. “It is a simple toy,” he admits ...

Yo-Yo is one of the very few sports that Americans have stolen, and damn near perfected it. Take 18-year-old Gentry Stein from Chico, CA., for example. He won the 2014 World Yo-Yo Championship over ...

SEATTLE — What does it take to be named the world's greatest yo-yo'er? Gentry Stein says Practice, practice, practice. 6 to 8 hours a day. “I started yo-yo-ing when I was about eight years old,” he ...

CHICO — Chico resident and long-time yo-yo competitor Gentry Stein came away as the 2019 1A National Yo-Yo Champion in a competition July 6-7 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Players from all over the ...