SAN ANTONIO — Sport stacking has been around since the 1980’s. The goal is to stack plastic cups into a formation as fast as you can. Some fans play at home for fun. Others race the clock at sport ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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