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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Willow Leahy stared at the tower of green plastic cups and flexed her fingers like a piano player preparing to tackle “Flight of the Bumblebee.” “This is ...

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.

Kevin Cruz, 12, neatly arranged the small, black cups in front of him into stacks of three before setting his palms back on the timer and training his eyes dead forward. A split-second later, his ...

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 ...

The first thing I noticed when I entered the St. Michael Center in Baltic, Conn., several Saturdays ago was the sound. It was sport stacking time, and the gym was filled with the click-clack-pop of ...

Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds? If the answer is "no" then the European Sport Stacking Championships are probably not for you. But for five people from Northern Ireland - including three ...