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 ...

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.

St. PAUL -- Away from competition, Luke Myers seems like a typical 14-year-old. But put some stacking cups in front of him and prepare to be astonished. Luke Myers practices his cup stacking skills at ...

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 ...