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 ...

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.

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 ...

Former Wisconsin Football quarterback Alex Hornibrook announced late last evening he is rescinding his decision to transfer to Florida State University and instead intends to lead a new team in ...

For the international 2012 Stack Up, people across the globe stacked cups, trying to achieve the most people stacking cups in multiple places in one day. Participants were trying to beat the 2001 ...

Josh and Zach Hainsel know how to stack cups - fast. Unfortunately for their mother, it's usually not when they are doing the dishes. The brothers, who just finished third and fifth grade at Gold Hill ...

A man running on all fours in Japan, 28 people jamming into a Mini Cooper in London, schoolchildren stacking cups across America and a man spinning a basketball on a toothbrush in Germany all shared a ...