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 ...

MILFORD — A room full of Woodland Elementary School students watched in awe Tuesday afternoon as 17-year-old Seamus Stoker whipped a dozen lavender-colored cups in and out of pyramid-shaped stacks.

When my 9-year-old son announced one day last week that he was learning to stack cups at school, I thought he was training to be a busboy. "Good," I said. "Unload the dishwasher." I have since learned ...