Fifth-grader Luke Mueller high fives Utah's number one sport stacker, Ethan Sumsion, after they raced during a sport stacking event at South Weber Elementary school on Thursday, November 13, 2014.

It's an unusual and popular sport called stacking. Participants beat by seeing how fast they can stack cups and a world record holders get this a Maryland 10 year old. 11. News education reporter Tim ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New Orleans Hornets center Robin Lopez is a man of many talents and hobbies. He has always been very vocal about his interest in drawing and comics, and as a student at Stanford he even acted in a ...

It's an addiction, they say. The speedy cup stackers at Oregon Episcopal School can't stop themselves. Time and again, they stack plastic cups in towers of three or six or 10 or 12 as fast as their ...

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.

Minnesota Wild captain Mikko Koivu got the better of fellow teammate and countryman Mikael Granlund in a recent cup-stacking challenge. It didn't look good in the first round for 32-year-old Koivu, ...

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 ...