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 ...

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 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 ...

Former Wisconsin Football quarterback Alex Hornibrook announced late last evening he is rescinding his decision to transfer to Florida State University and instead intends to lead a new team in ...

Many go the distance mentally through sport stacking, an activity that has become a trend in physical-education classes across the country. On Nov. 6, 80 Leacock Elementary third-graders joined 81,252 ...

OCALA - Fresh from a win at the 2004 World Cup Stacking Championships, an Osceola Middle School student may soon show his cup-stacking skills on the "Jimmy Kimmel Live" late-night talk show.

William Orrell is ranked as the top performer in the world in fast-cup stacking by the World Sport Stacking Association. Now, Orrell recently defeated the speed stacking world record, that was held by ...

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 ...

Blink, and you’ll miss Michael Haig’s blur of cups and hands as the world record holder assembles cups into a pyramid. The ambidextrous phenom, who just turned 5 on Aug. 26, can’t get enough of cup ...

If you listen as you read, you can hear the foot-stomping sounds of plastic cups slapping tabletops as children stack them into pyramids — first constructing, then collapsing them, one cup inside the ...