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Soccer includes accurate throwing from the goalie. I'd posit that hitting a projectile with a stick accurately is a close cousin of throwing.
That's all the big ones in US and EU that I can think of.
Baseball, basketball, soccer, football, cricket, rugby, hockey, what am I missing?
That’s just throwing with extra steps.
Games have been lost for less.
You're literally punished for hitting the ball with your hand in football. Have to agree with you here, bar the terminology.
That's because we are too good at throwing balls with our hands. That's the exception that proves the rule.
hard disagree; "concept of throwing", imo, is accurately predicting some complicated physics and then making the split second adjustments to fling an object from your body elsewhere with enough force to be useful; that it's kicking rather than hand based doesn't seem relevant imo, it's still about accuracy and weird spin and dexterity.
Football hooliganism is also based around accurate throwing of objects.
Handball, for one.
Lacrosse, European Handball
Good catches. They both fall under throwing, too.
Soccer is just throwing with your feet
Ditto kicking.
"pretty much all" is a stretch, but it's hard to disagree with that throwing things accurately is an aspect of a lot of our sports. And definitely the extreme dominant trait in American sports.
You're kinda intentionally missing the point.
If you had to pick one uniquely human aspect to group together as many sports as possible, what would you pick?
Teamwork is out because wolves hunt in packs and lions hunt in prides. Logic is arguable, everything we do is based in either emotion or logic, so it's not a good answer imo.
So what do you have left? Kicking and throwing are probably your best bets.
Just the good ones
You can throw things at any sports.
If you're not a coward.
English hooligans checking in.
Chess referees hate this!