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.

MOLINE-- Elementary students vying to be the fastest were all business as they competed in the Moline district cup stacking competition. In deep concentration, some bit their lips or held out their ...

Lunchtime became a little more entertaining (and competitive) at West Geauga Middle School with a friendly Minute to Win It theme Cup Stacking Competition. Students registered to play in teams of ...

Jesse Horn is back at it. Or, rather, the Cochrane-Fountain City High School student never took a break. Horn, whose journey with cup stacking — a sport that involves building then disassembling ...

St. PAUL -- Away from competition, Luke Myers seems like a typical 14-year-old. But put some stacking cups in front of him and prepare to be astonished. The Eden Prairie teenager is among the world's ...

From afar, it sounded as if a small army of tap dancers had overtaken an exhibit hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center on Sunday. Rather, it was 100 junior Olympians frantically assembling ...

MOLINE -- There was no speed limit at the cup-stacking competition Tuesday afternoon at Wharton Field House. The fastest kids turned the brightly colored cups into blurs as they stacked them into ...

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Ky. (WKRC) -- A local middle school student is getting national attention for his cup-stacking skills.Nick Stamm, a Campbell County Middle School student, placed 9th overall last ...

Blink and you might just miss it. The blur of crisscrossing hands and zigzagging neon cups is probably the weirdest organized sport you’ve never heard of. Dubbed sport stacking, this rapid-fire ...