On a warm spring day on a college campus, you may need to duck in order to avoid being hit by a barrage of brightly-colored frisbees being tossed from one player to the next. However, the original frisbee was not the universally popular plastic disk...

The Frisbee, a plastic flying disc, has been a required component of any American child's toy collection for most of the latter half of the twentieth century. It is widely believed that Ivy League students began flinging and catching pie and...

Wham-O Inc. changed the name of the Pluto Platter to Frisbee 50 years ago Sunday, flinging a new word into the cultural ether that still conjures images of carefree fun in the park and breezy days at the beach.And to think Walter "Fred" Morrison, the...

Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur "Spud" Melin, died Monday at Methodist Hospital after suffering a stroke...

Richard KnerrARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularized the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82.Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur "Spud" Melin, died Monday at a...

A translator for Guantanamo Bay detainees, a boxer from the Bronx and an ultimate Frisbee player were among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2008, the scholarship trust announced Sunday.Winners were chosen in a tough selection process from among 764 applicants for the coveted,...