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 ...

JENNIFER: MEET THREE GENERATIONS OF CUP STACKERS, DEANA WILSON AND HER 11-YEAR-OLD SON COLBY AND HER MOM DONNA. NEXT WEEK THEY ARE HEADING TO SPAIN TO COMPETE AGAINST STACKERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. P.J. Ball is a gifted athlete. He’s just 11 ...