Burning Bench

In the past few years, the Dallas Cowboys' playoff losses have contributed to their fans' mental anguish. Now one Texas woman is suing the team for the physical pain she suffered after sitting on a boiling bench outside Cowboys Stadium.

Jennelle Carrillo says that she suffered third degree burns on her buttocks, requiring skin grafts, when she attended the team's annual Blue & Silver scrimmage game and sat on a black marble bench that was “uncovered and openly exposed to the extremely hot August sun.” Carrillo claims that the team failed to warn fans that the sun might cause the bench to become “extremely hot and unreasonably dangerous.” She is seeking damages for physical pain, mental anguish, medical expenses, physical impairment and disfigurement.

Hockey Hullaballoo

Hockey is a famously physical sport, but one Michigan woman says the fighting didn't stay on the ice after a 2009 playoff game between the Anaheim Ducks and the Detroit Redwings. Rachel Paris claims that Ducks general manager Bob Murray assaulted her in a fit of rage following his team's late-game loss. According to Paris's lawsuit, Murray deliberately attacked her with a bar stool, tearing cartilage in her left shoulder and causing her to urinate blood. Paris, who worked as a contract broadcaster at the time of the incident, says she lost her job as a result of her injuries.

Testifying in court, Murray said that he pushed two chairs out of his path on his way to the locker room, but that he was unaware they may have hit Paris.

Ice Injury

A radio personality is suing the Nashville Predators after a stunt called the “human hockey puck” shockingly ended in hospitalization. Adam Davis, better known as “Intern Adam,” says the team invited him to participate in the event, in which a giant slingshot was supposed to launch him across the ice into some inflatable bowling pins. Unfortunately for Davis, the slingshot propelled him into the rink wall, breaking his ankle. The radio host claims the team never warned him about any risks associated with the event; he is seeking $25,000 in medical costs.