Former Edgerton and Janesville print and broadcast sports reporter Bob Samuelson has introduced his lifelong love of the game to life in the type of hand-drawn portraits of legendary athletes.
The third ground of the Edgerton Care Center has a room the place Samuelson shows a whole bunch of his hand drawn portraits of his favourite athletes. “I’m a sports nut,” Samuelson stated.
The Edgerton Reporter instructed the story behind Samuelson’s art in its July 15, 2026 version. According to the piece:
The assortment contains drawings of the long-time reporter’s favourite athletes from the Milwaukee Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, Milwaukee Bucks, Green Bay Packers and three very particular illustrations of Edgerton High School student-athletes who grew to become skilled athletes. Portraits of Steve Stricker, Derek Carrier and Paul Janus maintain a distinguished place on the bulletin board above Samuelson’s mattress. He calls it “The Edgerton Connection.”
Samuelson graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a journalism diploma in 1980.
Out of school, Samuelson labored at WCLO in Janesville broadcasting information, climate and sports. Eventually he left WCLO to tackle a part-time function at the Janesville Gazette overlaying sports.
At the Gazette, Samuelson coated highschool sports and earned a beat overlaying UW-Whitewater Warhawk soccer. His tasks included overlaying video games and going house to full his articles earlier than the Gazette’s 11 p.m. deadline.
While Samuelson loved overlaying the success of the Whitewater soccer workforce alongside along with his different tasks at the Gazette, he knew that he would want a extra sustainable place. He joined the Edgerton Reporter as a basic information reporter, then moved to full-time native sports reporter. His profession at the Edgerton Reporter lasted 32 years earlier than Samuelson’s hereditary spastic paraplegia started to restrict his mobility.
During his profession, Samuelson earned the college district’s Golden Apple award, the Wisconsin Baseball Coach’s Association media award and a number of other WNA awards as a person and as half of the Edgerton Reporter workers. He was inducted into the Edgerton Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.
Living at the Edgerton Care Center since 2016, Samuelson has spent his time drawing greater than 400 portraits — together with former Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, Christian Yelich from the Milwaukee Brewers and Giannis Antetekoumpo who was lately traded from the Milwaukee Bucks — that cowl his partitions of the native senior care facility.