Someone Stole Pete Sampras' Tennis Trophies 3.40K Jeff Neumann 12/08/10 08:33AM Filed to: Heists Heists Sports Pete Sampras Tennis Crime Thieves California Gettypic Retired tennis great Pete Sampras had a "majority" of the memorabilia from his days as a champion stolen from a California public storage facility, including rings, medals and trophies. It's very sad, but why was that stuff in public storage?