a short week of practice ahead of Fridays game at No. 10 Washington, the first top-10 matchup in the Pac-12 this season.A perfectly placed

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Great Britains Katy McLean has already achieved the pinnacle of winning the World Cup in 15s but the sheer magnitude of the Olympics has stopped her in her tracks.Playing in pressure matches is nothing new for McLean -- she captained England to their 2014 World Cup triumph -- but she is expecting pit-of-the-stomach nerves when standing in the tunnel before their first match of the womens sevens tournament against hosts Brazil on Saturday at the Deodoro Stadium.Team GB have been together since October and competed as a group on last seasons World Sevens Series. At the crux of Britains womens sevens side will be the team of England players who won World Cup gold in 2014, and now they have a shot at sevens glory.?I thought they [World Cup and Rio 2016] might be similar but the Olympics is so grand, Mclean told ESPN. Its got so much history and tradition to it and so many great athletes that are part of it and we are now in that same bracket of people who have participated in the Olympics.But there are similarities you can draw with how to deal with the pressure and how to focus on our performance rather than get too carried away with the things going on around you.The Olympics journey started in 2014 for McLean, soon after Englands World Cup win. The Rugby Football Union handed out fulltime sevens contracts to 20 players, effectively ruling them out of 15s availability.It was a controversial move as a number of their 2014 World Cup-winners were unable to play in the 2015 and 2016 Six Nations for England, perhaps passing up the opportunity to build on the spike of interest following their triumph, but it was a statement of intent over their gold-medal aspirations.The team finished fourth on the 2015-16 World Series and Australia will head into the womens sevens competition as favourites but there is a confidence in Great Britains contingent, one formed of 11 England players and Wales Jasmine Joyce.After travelling to Belo Horizonte for their pre-Games training camp they were given a pep talk from Sir Clive Woodward and it was then that it struck home for McLean exactly what it meant to be part of Team GB.Belo Horizonte was amazing for us, McLean said. It was the first experience of being part of the whole Team GB setup. There were other athletes arriving so it got bigger and bigger and it was a really good opportunity for us as a squad to fine tune the last bits of rugby going into Rio so that was a massive success.The facilities were out of this world and to be able to train at the temperatures were going to play will make a massive difference so it really helped.Living in the Olympic Village was an overwhelming experience at first as they had never encountered anything like it, but on a personal level McLean had already overcome her biggest obstacle: to reach Rio, she had to change position.By her own admission, if she had stuck to her 15s fly-half role, she may have missed out on a spot in the squad so instead she switched to playing at hooker in the forwards.The hooker rules suit me more so as I can get hands on the ball a lot more but it means I have to work ridiculously hard in defence as you get stuck in the middle of the pitch, she said. But hopefully Ive transitioned quite well and I love the role Im in.Her on-field goal is simple: to lay the foundations so the backs can set the stage on fire while off-field, she will be using her vast experience to ensure nerves are used to drive performance and hopefully a medal.We have to keep remembering we are here to perform, McLean said. We have just got to make sure that we stick to our planning and processes. There have been so many different winners in the World Series this year.Australia and New Zealand have got to be the favourites -- their consistency of form has been phenomenal this year -- and you have got the likes of us, Canada, USA and the hosts Brazil. We are all looking forward to it. Ender Inciarte Braves Jersey . If ever they start actually putting pictures beside words in the dictionary, the Blue Jays left-handers mug will appear beside “Consistency. 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PASADENA, Calif. -- The fade route in the end zone sometimes isnt a popular play call, but No. 7 Stanford made it work in its 22-13 comeback win at UCLA.The Cardinal will need their passing offense to work more consistently to defend its Pac-12 title, coach David Shaw said.Weve got to play a much cleaner game next week or we dont have a chance at Washington, Shaw said.Stanford has a short week of practice ahead of Fridays game at No. 10 Washington, the first top-10 matchup in the Pac-12 this season.A perfectly placed ball from quarterback Ryan Burns to wide receiver J.J. Arcega-Whiteside with 24 seconds left gave the Cardinals the win. Arcega-Whiteside didnt play in the opener against Kansas State, and the sophomore didnt catch a pass against Southern California last week.His playing time came Saturday after Francis Owusu was knocked out of the game on a helmet-to-helmet hit in the second quarter.The 8-yard touchdown reception was Arcega-Whitesides third career catch and gave Stanford its first lead of the game. He and others try that play during slow moments in practice, when the Stanford quarterbacks and wide receivers work on timing and placement of the fade during special team periods.The 6-foot-3 Arcega-Whiteside was a three-sport athlete at Dorman High School in Inman, South Carolina. He also ran track and was a touted basketball player.We just kept our composure from the time we started to the time we finished, said Arcega-Whiteside, who got one foot inbounds on an acrobatic play. We made mistakes, but you could sense in those last two minutes that we were all going to execute. When we do it, it all pays off.Stanford spent most of the game struggling with its passing. Burrns was 1 of 5 for 8 yards in the second half before the go-ahead 70-yard drive.dddddddddddd Five straight runs gained 50 yards on a possession in the third quarter, but consecutive incompletions resulted in a 37-yard field goal by Conrad Ukropina instead of a touchdown that would have tied the game.The Bruins gave up rushing yards -- 207 yards on 37 carries. But UCLA contained Heisman Trophy contender Christian McCaffrey, who finished with 138 yards rushing. He topped the 100-yard mark for the 14th time in his last 15 games, but didnt have a run longer than 13 yards.With UCLA kicking away from him, McCaffrey was held to 165 all-purpose yards and broke his streak of eight straight games with more than 200.Opponents, including the Huskies, will focus on containing McCaffrey. A viable passing offense is necessary to take pressure off the junior.Burns went 5 of 8 for 66 yards on the last possession on Saturday, totaling nearly half of his output for the game. Improved passing will give defenses more to account for and Shaw more options.When he starts calling more passing plays, it means he has confidence in us wide receivers and the quarterback to make the play, Arcega-Whiteside said. Which, in the end, is better for us because we get to do what we were brought here to do.Shaw said there wasnt enough time to go over all that went wrong on offense. However, when it mattered, Stanford did everything right.Bottom line, we got to play better during the game, Burns said. We did pretty well at the end.---AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '