Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver's Trophies Are Back after Being Stolen Amid LA Fires

FILE - Pam Shriver is seen ahead of the women's singles match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
FILE - Pam Shriver is seen ahead of the women's singles match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
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Tennis Hall of Famer Pam Shriver's Trophies Are Back after Being Stolen Amid LA Fires

FILE - Pam Shriver is seen ahead of the women's singles match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
FILE - Pam Shriver is seen ahead of the women's singles match at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, Thursday, July 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

International Tennis Hall of Fame member Pam Shriver has her trophies back, regaining the dozen or so pieces of hardware that were in a car stolen from the hotel where she was staying after evacuating from her home during the spread of devastating wildfires in the greater Los Angeles area.
“It was an interesting chapter. I wish the trophies could talk,” Shriver said in a telephone interview Friday. “I would like to have known where they’ve been.”
Shriver won 21 Grand Slam doubles championships — all but one alongside Martina Navratilova — a gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics and a total of 111 doubles titles. Shriver, now a TV commentator and coach, was inducted into the sport's Hall in 2002.
Like so many other LA residents, Shriver left her home as part of a mandatory evacuation as the fires spread. In the end, she said, her home was fine.
But while she was staying at a hotel, a car that contained some of her personal belongings, including family photos going back decades, was taken. The car still has not been recovered, Shriver said, but the trophies were dropped off in boxes placed outside the hotel about 10 days later, and she finally got them back this week, The Associated Press reported.
“The trophies were buried in the back of the car. You couldn’t look in the window and see them,” she said. “I don’t think they were of any good to the people who took the car. So they ended up returning them.”
Shriver first heard the good news via a phone call from the manager of the hotel. A detective picked up the trophies the next day to fingerprint them, Shriver said.
“Then the trophies were released to me,” she said. “I regained custody.”
The haul included her five trophies for winning the US Open women's doubles event — in 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987 and 1991 — plus a bowl she received from the US Tennis Association after having been the singles runner-up in 1978 at age 16 as an amateur who, Shriver recalled, “got no money, no trophy, some flowers.”
Also in the car were the four French Open doubles trophies she and Navratilova won in 1984, 1985, 1987 and 1988. There was at least one other silver trophy from tennis, plus — Shriver related with a laugh — the reward she received for being honored as the most improved golfer at Brentwood Country Club in 2001.



Spurs Midfielder Maddison Silences Critics with Winner Against Man United 

Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - February 16, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur's James Maddison celebrates scoring their first goal. (Action Images via Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - February 16, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur's James Maddison celebrates scoring their first goal. (Action Images via Reuters)
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Spurs Midfielder Maddison Silences Critics with Winner Against Man United 

Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - February 16, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur's James Maddison celebrates scoring their first goal. (Action Images via Reuters)
Football - Premier League - Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, Britain - February 16, 2025 Tottenham Hotspur's James Maddison celebrates scoring their first goal. (Action Images via Reuters)

James Maddison delivered the perfect riposte to his doubters by scoring the winning goal against Manchester United after the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder had come in for some stinging criticism in the lead-up to Sunday's Premier League match.

Making his first start since suffering a calf injury in December, Maddison tapped in a rebound from close range to give his side a 1-0 win in London, celebrating his goal with a shushing gesture.

Earlier in the week, former Manchester United captain Roy Keane had said anyone who thought Maddison's return to the side would help Spurs break into the top six was living in "cuckoo land."

"He got relegated with Leicester and he'll get relegated with Spurs," Keane said on "The Overlap" podcast.

"There was a little bit of outside noise this week," Maddison, who joined Spurs from Leicester City in 2023, told Sky Sports.

"People will have their opinions, but I wanted to do my talking on the pitch. I hope there is a certain few that enjoyed me being the match-winner today.

"Nobody is more critical of myself than me," he added.

"To be fair to the gaffer, he always talks about blocking out the outside noise, but sometimes it's difficult, you know. It's constantly in your face, social media and WhatsApp."

Despite the win Spurs remain in the bottom half of the table, sitting in 12th spot on 30 points after 25 games. They visit Ipswich Town on Saturday.