Playing with plastic cups is getting to be serious business. The Connecticut State Sport Stacking Championship was held Saturday in Baltic with participants as young as 3 looking to set world and ...

FAIRFIELD, Ohio -- To most people, a plastic cup is just a vessel from which to drink, but for Robert Weatherington, plastic cups mean competition. The 17-year-old from Fairfield is part of the U.S.

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.

KITTERY, Maine — In Corrine Gagnon's fourth-grade class at Shapleigh School, groups of students sit on the floor gracefully but intently stacking blue plastic cups. Their movements are precise, almost ...

The "Wisconsin Winter Stack Up" hosted some of the country's fastest cup stackers. Sport stacking is a competition in which competitors stack specially designed cups up and down in set patterns. Speed ...

Sport stacking is a global sport that’s especially popular among schoolchildren. (Muhammad Rabbani Jamian @ FMT Lifestyle). At first glance, it might seem like child’s play – stacking plastic cups on ...

Cup stacking teen heads to Junior Olympics Joey Cooksey, 16, demonstrates her cup stacking skills at Saturday Market in downtown Portland. She's trying to raise $1500 to pay for her trip to the Junior ...

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 ...

During the past two years — as her grade-school son, Austin Naber, was setting the cup-stacking world ablaze by breaking nine world records and winning 43 medals and six trophies in 10 tournaments — ...