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PARIS – Over the past week, French farmers have used tractors to block the border with Germany and chucked foreign vegetables off trucks in protest of cheap imports. French leaders did not call in the police — they gave the farmers their support. France’s permissive attitude toward protest has cultural …

HOUSTON – James Harden thinks the Houston Rockets have only some minor tinkering to do before the playoffs begin. Otherwise, everything seems to be working fine. Harden had 29 points and nine assists, Omer Asik had 10 points and 12 rebounds and Houston cruised to a 121-100 win over the …

HAMPTON, Va. – Jalen Simmons ran for 129 yards and scored the tie-breaking touchdown that lifted South Carolina State to a 17-10 win over Hampton on Saturday. Simmons’ winning score came with just over a minute left in the game, breaking a 10-10 tie. The Bulldogs (3-2, 1-0 Mid-Eastern Athletic …

Getafe, Spain – Getafe, Spain (SportsNetwork.com) – Getafe announced on Monday that the club has fired manager Luis Garcia and replaced him with former Romania international Cosmin Contra. The move doesn’t come as a complete surprise following Getafe’s 2-0 defeat at the hands of last-place Real Betis over the weekend, …

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – No Maryland quarterback has started every game in a season since 2006, a streak that will continue if injured C.J. Brown can’t go Saturday against No. 20 Ohio State. Brown left Saturday’s 37-15 victory at Indiana with a sprained left wrist, and his status for Maryland’s …

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Qualifying medalist Alan Fadel beat Stephen Fox 1 up on Monday in the first round of the U.S. Senior Amateur. The 59-year-old Fadel, a financial adviser from Toledo, Ohio, won on the par-5 18th at Big Canyon after Fox, from Huntington, West Virginia, tied it on …

Frisco, TX – Frisco, TX (SportsNetwork.com) – FC Dallas got its 2014 campaign off to a good start on Saturday as Blas Perez scored a goal and assisted on another in a 3-2 Dallas win over the Montreal Impact at Toyota Stadium. The Impact got off to a quick start …

HOYLAKE, England – Justin Rose played the first two holes of his opening round of the British Open without a driver after it was mistakenly removed from his golf bag by his caddie. Rose’s caddie, Mark Fulcher, had arranged to send two drivers to a couple of his friends in …

ATHENS, Greece – Greece’s coast guard says a tug boat is heading to a ferry that ran aground overnight outside port on the Aegean island of Kassos with 282 passengers and crew on board. The Vitsenzos Kornaros had been on a route from the main port of Piraeus to Rhodes …

BEIJING – The more than 2,000 members of China’s top political advisory body have convened their annual meeting to put forward proposals for the national congress. Yu Zhengsheng, chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, opened the session in Beijing on Tuesday, two days before the National People’s Congress …