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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.