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Indoor recess in Elementary School was the place Michael Vanner found a new passion many years ago. His third-grade teacher gave him and other kids some cups and they would practice stacking. Vanner, ...

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 ...

Yung-Deng Lin can stack a group of cups in about 1.6 seconds, an impressive time for a 7-year-old. To give an idea of how fast the child can stack cups, the World Sport Stacking Association overall ...

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 ...

Jordan Neuman is really good at sports stacking. He’s on Team USA in the World Sport Stacking Association and is ranked second for male stackers in Florida, twenty-first for male stackers in 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.

It's time for me to tread on sacred ground ... or eat the sacred cow ... or whatever it is you do when you tromp all over a popular cultural phenomenon. It's time to argue the merits of cup stacking.

MUKWONAGO, Wis. - In the Nicloy's family home in Mukwonago, it's hard to miss the sound of nine-year-old Liam Nicloy speed stacking. "Usually, I wake up and then play a little bit in the morning, and ...