Most sports are actually absurd. Golf involves hitting a tiny ball into a hole hundreds of yards away. Soccer is based on the idea of what if we didn't use our hands. Speed stacking — if you really ...

The first thing I noticed when I entered the St. Michael Center in Baltic, Connecticut, several Saturdays ago was the sound. It was sport stacking time, and the gym was filled with the click-clack-pop ...

St. PAUL -- Away from competition, Luke Myers seems like a typical 14-year-old. But put some stacking cups in front of him and prepare to be astonished. The Eden Prairie teenager is among the world's ...

Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Sept. 30, 2025. Click here for that audio. In the early 2000s, thousands of U.S. schools had their students race the clock to stack cups in gym class.

WASHINGTON – A local boy has become the world champion in competitive cup stacking. William Polly, 11, of Arlington, Va. earned the distinction at the 2012 World Sport Stacking Championships held in ...

The "Wisconsin Winter Stack Up" hosted some of the country's fastest cup stackers. Sport stacking is a competition in which competitors stack specially designed cups up and down in set patterns. Speed ...

When watching 7-year-old Austin Naber stack cups, you think your eyes are playing tricks on you. It’s like viewing a recorded TV show on fast forward. The tow-headed youngster’s hands are literally a ...

Austintown Intermediate School third grader Robert Marinelli practices cup stacking after school Thursday in anticipation of participating in a staking tournament Saturday at the school. Marinelli ...

Ezekiel McDowell has been obsessed with speed for as long as he can remember. His favorite superhero growing up was The Flash and he says he can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 30 seconds. But for the ...

Many go the distance mentally through sport stacking, an activity that has become a trend in physical-education classes across the country. On Nov. 6, 80 Leacock Elementary third-graders joined 81,252 ...