Featured articles widget?

[socceronly]

I have looked through the widgets, but not exactly sure if something already does this.

We have more than a dozen writers, and stuff is dropping off the front too fast. Some articles are long and well researched and popular.

I would like to put up a widget with x number of articles so some have some staying power rather than falling off the map too quickly.

I could make a static HTML widget... but I need the sites general editor to be able to pick the articles and add/remove them without admin access.

Any ideas?

I am willing to hire someone to do this and put the mod back out to the community.