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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

MOLINE, Illinois - Today, more than 125 elementary students gathered at Wharton Field House in Moline to compete in a sport stacking competition. It was the 15 annual competition for the event known ...

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 ...