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.

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.

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 ...

The first thing I noticed when I entered the St. Michael Center in Baltic, Conn., several Saturdays ago was the sound. It was sport stacking time, and the gym was filled with the click-clack-pop of ...

The first thing I noticed when I entered the St. Michael Center in Baltic, Connecticut, several Saturdays ago was the sound. It was sport stacking time, and the gym was filled with the click-clack-pop ...