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 ...

MILFORD — A room full of Woodland Elementary School students watched in awe Tuesday afternoon as 17-year-old Seamus Stoker whipped a dozen lavender-colored cups in and out of pyramid-shaped stacks.

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.

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 ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - It’s an unlikely P.E. unit at Huntington Elementary School that is teaching students to race against the clock while stacking cups. The cup stacking unit gives students the ...

Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds? If the answer is "no" then the European Sport Stacking Championships are probably not for you. But for five people from Northern Ireland - including three ...

Blink and you might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you’ve never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire ...