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.

EAGLE – There’s something new on this weekend’s Flight Days schedule. For the first time, competitive cup stacking (called sport or speed stacking) will be a part of Saturday’s activities.In sport ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- The clock, concentration, coordination... the cups! Welcome to the sport of speed cup stacking. "It is a sport," said 17-year-old speed stacker Matthew Hill. "It promotes ...