Prepare for a little sensory overload as you watch the accompanying video. The sequences show kids and adults competing for the Super Stack 2011 championships, sanctioned by the World Sport Stacking ...

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 ...

WOONSOCKET, R.I. (WJAR) — Two health and PE teachers in Woonsocket are doing all they can for their kids when it comes to giving them something to look forward to, and boosting their confidence. About ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- The clock, concentration, coordination... the cups! Welcome to the sport of speed cup stacking. "It is a sport," said 17-year-old speed stacker Matthew Hill. "It promotes ...

It's time for me to tread on sacred ground ... or eat the sacred cow ... or whatever it is you do when you tromp all over a popular cultural phenomenon. It's time to argue the merits of cup stacking.