Theme Question: Newsweek.com NFL.com story rotator

I am looking for a way to create a space on my homepage that contains an image area that links to a post/story. The picture area would change the picture every few seconds, and when the user clicked on the current image, the corresponding article would be called. Newsweek.com and NFL.com both have the exact functionality that I am looking for, with the rotating images, and with each image there is a small sentence or few that describe the story. There is also the capability to click to see the next/previous story image. Please let me know if I need to further explain what I mean. Thank you.