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 ...

Austintown Intermediate School third grader Robert Marinelli practices cup stacking after school Thursday in anticipation of participating in a staking tournament Saturday at the school. Marinelli ...

Blink, and you’ll miss Michael Haig’s blur of cups and hands as the world record holder assembles cups into a pyramid. The ambidextrous phenom, who just turned 5 on Aug. 26, can’t get enough of cup ...

In effort to promote friendly competition, Freeland Middle School 7th and 8th-graders learned how to quickly stack cups in precise form, not to allow any to tumble down. Students competed against one ...

Many go the distance mentally through sport stacking, an activity that has become a trend in physical-education classes across the country. On Nov. 6, 80 Leacock Elementary third-graders joined 81,252 ...

Also known as sport stacking or speed stacking, cup stacking is a sport where people rapidly stack and collapse (called down stacking) pyramids of plastic cups. The cups approved for competition by ...

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 ...