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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ezekiel McDowell has been obsessed with speed for as long as he can remember. His favorite superhero growing up was The Flash and he says he can solve a Rubik’s Cube in under 30 seconds. But for the ...

Playing with plastic cups is getting to be serious business. The Connecticut State Sport Stacking Championship was held Saturday in Baltic with participants as young as 3 looking to set world and ...

MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee family owns a record in the Guinness Book of World Records. They built the largest plastic cup pyramid in 30 minutes -- with 652 cups! The men of the Ish-Shalom family -- Uri, ...

A talented dog, known for his mastery of complex tricks, has wowed social media users with his latest cup stacking manoeuvre. Leo the cocker spaniel played the game 'better than most toddlers', ...

TACOMA, Wash. — A 19-year-old southern sea otter known for her ability to stack plastic cups has died at the zoo where she lived in Washington state. Officials with the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium ...