Krzyzewski to quit as U.S. coach after 2016

Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski will step down from his position as the head coach of U.S. men’s national team after the 2016 Olympics, according to an interview he gave to ESPN’s Andy Katz.

“It is. It definitely is,’’ Krzyzewski told ESPN about this being his last stint as head coach with USA Basketball. “I think it’s time to move ahead.”

This is not the first time Krzyzewski, 68, has made a pledge to step away from his head coaching position with USA Basketball. After winning gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Krzyzewski returned to the Raleigh-Durham airport and said he was done, but he changed his mind in 2013. This time, the plan is to announce his successor before the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games next summer.

In the 10 years he has been the national team’s head coach, Krzyzewski has a record of 75-1, winning gold in 2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London. The team’s only loss came to Greece in the semifinals of the 2006 FIBA World Championship.

COLLEGES

University of Memphis sophomore Jake Leeker was chosen American Athletic Conference men’s Goalkeeper of the Week after leading the Tigers to a win over Georgia State and a double-overtime draw with No. 12 South Florida. Leeker made six saves in each match. Tigers Raul Gonzalez and Austin Stone were named to the league’s honor roll for the week. ... Jack Berhorst and Leighton Dempster set personal bests in leading the No. 6-ranked Tiger rifle squad to a 4,656-4,642 win over No. 13 Army late Sunday. Memphis won both team disciplines, beating the Cadets 2,311-2,309 in smallbore and 2,345-2,333 in air rifle. Tiger senior Beth Lee was first in individual aggregate score (1,165) and air rifle (589). Berhorst won smallbore with a personal-best 582. Dempster shot a personal-best 588 in air rifle and tied for second in the discipline.

SOCCER

Carli Lloyd is among 10 players on the shortlist for the 2015 Ballon d’Or award for the women’s world player of the year after the American scored a hat trick in the World Cup final. Lloyd, whose club team is the Houston Dash of the National Women’s Soccer League, was one of three players on the list from the U.S., the most of any country. She’s joined by Seattle Reign teammates Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe.

TENNIS

Ivo Karlovic hit 17 aces while defeating Andreas Seppi of Italy 7-6 (5), 6-3 in the first round of the Erste Bank Open on Monday in Vienna. Also, Jiri Vesely of the Czech Republic defeated Austrian wild-card entry Gerald Melzer 6-4, 6-3. ... Irina-Camelia Begu, the runnerup last year, was among the winners at the Kremlin Cup on Monday in Moscow, while Angelique Kerber withdrew from the tournament. Romania’s Begu, seeded seventh, took a 1-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 win over Bulgaria’s Tsvetana Pironkova. Kerber blamed a back injury for her withdrawal. In the men’s competition, seventh-seeded Joao Sousa of Portugal lost 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-5 to Spain’s Daniel Gimeno-Traver.

COURTS

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot his girlfriend in 2013, was released from prison and placed under house arrest on Monday night in Johannesburg, South African officials said. Pistorius had served nearly a year of his five-year sentence for manslaughter. Under South African law, an offender sentenced to five years or less in jail can be released after serving one-sixth of the term — in Pistorius’ case 10 months. Pistorius was acquitted of murder last year for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but prosecutors have appealed the trial verdict of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, and will seek a murder conviction again at South Africa’s Supreme Court on Nov. 3.