Everyone’s paying attention to the Winter Olympics halfway around the world in Sochi, Russia. Closer to home, there’s growing interest in a slightly different "sport" -- this one using a small, ...

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.

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 ...

Prepare for a little sensory overload as you watch the accompanying video. The sequences show kids and adults competing for the Super Stack 2011 championships, sanctioned by the World Sport Stacking ...

If you listen as you read, you can hear the foot-stomping sounds of plastic cups slapping tabletops as children stack them into pyramids — first constructing, then collapsing them, one cup inside the ...

A Colorado Springs Christian School kindergarten student helps the school be part of breaking the world record for the most people stacking cups in one day. This wasn’t just any old cup stacking ...

Fifth-grader Luke Mueller high fives Utah's number one sport stacker, Ethan Sumsion, after they raced during a sport stacking event at South Weber Elementary school on Thursday, November 13, 2014.

This wasn’t just any old cup stacking exercise for students at Colorado Springs Christian School in Woodland Park. No, this one was the 2019 STACK UP! contest where the school helped hundreds of ...