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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 ...

SAN ANTONIO — Sport stacking has been around since the 1980’s. The goal is to stack plastic cups into a formation as fast as you can. Some fans play at home for fun. Others race the clock at sport ...

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.

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The sport involves stacking nine to 12 specially designed cups in predetermined sequences as quickly as possible.

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 ...