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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clack-clack-clack-clack. Like the hoof beats of a thousand baby Clydesdales. This is cup stacking, the deceptively simple task of building and taking down pyramids of plastic cups. Fast. How fast? All ...

Taylor, 9, a third-grader at Lamar Elementary School in The Woodlands, won first place in the individual cup stacking championship in her division in this year's national competition in Denver, Colo.