Convincing physical education professionals that a bunch of plastic cups can strengthen athletic skills is a tough sell. At first. This was Daniel Wolff’s challenge Wednesday morning during a workshop ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Americans will compete at just about anything, including eating hot dogs and rolling logs. Now, cup stacking joins that list. Robert W. Fox, 46, a former physical education teacher, promotes cup ...

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 ...

JOPLIN, Mo. — It was cup stacking time again at St. Mary’s Elementary in Joplin. Part of the school’s annual “stack up” event where kindergarten through 5th grade kids were part of a world record ...