Everyone’s paying attention to the Winter Olympics halfway around the world in Sochi, Russia. Closer to home, there’s growing interest in a slightly different "sport" -- this one using a small, ...

If you know what Cup Stacking is, you're probably a parent or a kid who graduated recently. Speed stacks have been around for more than 18 years, but it's blowing up in a big way. Not only has 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.

These kids gathered in the living room, their eyes twinkling with excitement as they prepared for the cup-stacking challenge.

Matt Adame was 8 when his cup-stacking talents landed him on “The Tonight Show.” Twenty years later, he recalls the scene as Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon tried to finesse the plastic tumblers. “I ...

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal had a story on one of my favorite sports: Cup stacking. Kids basically take a plastic cups and have to stack them into pyramids and then take them down.

Cup stacking event aims for 600,000 participants; current record is 555,932. This sport requires speed, focus — and a lot of cups. Students at Cooper City Elementary stepped up to the challenge on ...

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 ...

SPRING HILL, Fla. — Hundreds of thousands of people all across the globe participated last week in the "Stack Up! 2018" speed stacking event, hoping to contribute to breaking a Guinness World Record.