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.

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 ...

To call cup stacking popular is a major understatement. "I could not believe the impact it had on students," said physical education teacher John Dunlop. "Seriously, I was floored." "It changed my ...

Quick – take a dozen plastic cups and stack them in a pyramid, then back into a single stack again. Can you do it in just a few seconds? Then you might have what it takes to be a competitive Sport ...

In a growing school fad, kids are competing to take small plastic cups and stack them into formations as quickly as possible. But is it a sport? Nancy Greenleese of member station KUNC reports.

Cup stacking sounds like something you’d do at the kitchen sink, not in, say, a school gym. But, on certain days, Karen Shute’s physical education class at M.E. Pearson Elementary School in Kansas ...