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.

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In a growing school fad, kids are competing to take small plastic cups and stack them into formations as quickly as possible. But is it a sport? Nancy Greenleese of member station KUNC reports.

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