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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ezekiel McDowell has been obsessed with speed for as long as he can remember. His favorite superhero growing up was The Flash and he says he can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 30 seconds. But for the ...