The sport involves stacking nine to 12 specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as quickly as possible.

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, ...

EAGLE – There’s something new on this weekend’s Flight Days schedule. For the first time, competitive cup stacking (called sport or speed stacking) will be a part of Saturday’s activities.In sport ...

Quick – take a dozen plastic cups and stack them in a pyramid, then back into a single stack again. Can you do it in just a few seconds? Then you might have what it takes to be a competitive Sport ...

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 ...

If you know what Cup Stacking is, you're probably a parent or a kid who graduated recently. Speed stacks have been around for more than 18 years, but it's blowing up in a big way. Not only has sport ...

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 ...

Matt Adame was 8 when his cup-stacking talents landed him on “The Tonight Show.” Twenty years later, he recalls the scene as Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon tried to finesse the plastic tumblers. “I ...

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.

MILFORD — A room full of Woodland Elementary School students watched in awe Tuesday afternoon as 17-year-old Seamus Stoker whipped a dozen lavender-colored cups in and out of pyramid-shaped stacks.