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.

EDWARDS ” David Reilly had one word to describe how it feels to be world champion. “Happy,” David said. On April 15, the Edwards 5-year-old won his age division for the 3-6-3 stack in the ESPN World ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their blue tie-dyed t-shirts read “12 cups — 2 hands — 1 goal: stack fast!” And this is exactly what the Easton Elementary Stackers did when they traveled to the Maryland Sport Stacking Championships ...

Could you stack 12 cups in under two seconds? If the answer is "no" then the European Sport Stacking Championships are probably not for you. But for five people from Northern Ireland - including three ...