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.

I read the Thursday letter to the editor, “An ironic sporting event,” regarding the sport of cup stacking. My son and his friends were participants in the cup-stacking tournament on April 1 in the gym ...

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 ...

Also known as sport stacking or speed stacking, cup stacking is a sport where people rapidly stack and collapse (called down stacking) pyramids of plastic cups. The cups approved for competition by ...

JENNIFER: MEET THREE GENERATIONS OF CUP STACKERS, DEANA WILSON AND HER 11-YEAR-OLD SON COLBY AND HER MOM DONNA. NEXT WEEK THEY ARE HEADING TO SPAIN TO COMPETE AGAINST STACKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. P.J. Ball is a gifted athlete. He’s just 11 ...

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 ...