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 ...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- To most people, a plastic cup is just a vessel from which to drink, but for Robert Weatherington, plastic cups mean competition. The 17-year-old from Fairfield is part of the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

Quick – take a dozen plastic cups and stack them in a pyramid, then back into a single stack again. Can you do it in just a few seconds? Then you might have what it takes to be a competitive Sport ...