Some Light Weekend Reading

As you consider what to do with our lineup and how to vote in our poll on abandoned fantasy football teams, here are some links worthy of your clicking time.

Pay attention to that waiver wire. There will be a quiz. A North Carolina high school teacher named Michael Williams has won the Economic Educator of the Year Award from the North Carolina Council on Economic Education. His innovation: having students draft and track a fantasy football team to learn about supply and demand. (Assist to a fellow WordPress blogger, Gold and the Game, for finding this story.)

Can I nominate Matt Forte? For you fantasy players who think you couldn't pick a good team if your life were riding on the outcome, here's a Yahoo! list of the biggest draft busts of the past decade. The moral: Highly paid professionals can't get it right, either. The difference between you and the GMs who made these picks: They get cushy jobs after they fail. You just get laughed at by your closest friends.

You just traded Gonzalez for Cutler? Go to your room! Another fellow WordPress blogger, Jonathan's World (heads up: the site's artwork isn't exactly safe for work) offers an interesting post on whether children should play fantasy football. My opinion: Let them play. If we don't come up with creative ways to get kids interested in football, we may lose an entire generation in places like Cleveland.

Warning: This post has more than 140 characters. The Wall Street Journal (yes, the Wall Street-freaking Journal, the place that uses drawings instead of photos) has an article about how the National Football League has been changed by the invention of Twitter.

For example, there's the Larry Johnson saga. "Had Twitter not existed, or had the Chiefs forbade their players from tweeting, Mr. Johnson most likely would have awakened today as the Chiefs' all-time leading rusher, and still been owned in most leagues."

We'll be back tomorrow with some visual aids.