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.

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 ...

Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FISHERS, Ind. (WTHR) – A 13-year-old Fishers boy is the best in Indiana in his sport for any age, male or female, according to the World Sport Stacking Association. Austin Naber is also ranked 9th in ...