Yung-Deng Lin can stack a group of cups in about 1.6 seconds, an impressive time for a 7-year-old. To give an idea of how fast the child can stack cups, the World Sport Stacking Association overall ...

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 ...

I read the Thursday letter to the editor, “An ironic sporting event,” regarding the sport of cup stacking. My son and his friends were participants in the cup-stacking tournament on April 1 in the gym ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's time for me to tread on sacred ground ... or eat the sacred cow ... or whatever it is you do when you tromp all over a popular cultural phenomenon. It's time to argue the merits of cup stacking.

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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.