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 ...

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.

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.

Americans will compete at just about anything, including eating hot dogs and rolling logs. Now, cup stacking joins that list. Robert W. Fox, 46, a former physical education teacher, promotes cup ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — It was cup stacking time again at St. Mary’s Elementary in Joplin. Part of the school’s annual “stack up” event where kindergarten through 5th grade kids were part of a world record ...

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 ...

A fast-paced and entertaining sport stacking challenge testing speed, coordination, and reflexes, where precision and timing decide the winner in this viral skill-based competition. #CupStacking #Spee ...

It's an unusual and popular sport called stacking. Participants beat by seeing how fast they can stack cups and a world record holders get this a Maryland 10 year old. 11. News education reporter Tim ...

Old Mission Peninsula School is proving that their winter sports program is stacked! They’re participating in the , an attempt to have the most students around the world stack cups for 30 minutes.

Watch an autistic boy master cup stacking, building confidence, and family connection.