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.

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 ...

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 ...

— Sitting in front of Ayaan Cheema were 12 green cups. After the start signal by his teacher, Michael Donovan, Ayaan began stacking those cups. Ayaan, a kindergartner at St. James Elementary, built ...

In the highest levels of sport stacking, which might more informatively be called cup stacking and indeed WAS called cup stacking until its organizers — and yes, it has organizers — decided the name ...