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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr . getting lots of mail in Vegas jail, but won't see Pacquiao fight

Floyd Mayweather Jr. won't be able to see rival Manny Pacquiao's pay-per-view fight Saturday night against Timothy Bradley, but he will have time to read his mail.As inmate No. 1363917 at the Clark County jail in Las Vegas, Mayweather doesn't have access to a television, computer or telephone in the small solo jail cell where on Friday he was beginning the second week of a three-month sentence in a domestic violence case.He has been getting lots of mail since someone posted his inmate number and address on Twitter, Las Vegas police Officer Bill Cassell said.Jail mail is screened, and Cassell told The Associated Press that some photos to Mayweather have been confiscated as "inappropriate.""He's gotten some mail and a couple of books. There has been some contraband that has been stopped," Cassell said. He wouldn't describe the photos in detail.Mayweather's lawyers in Las Vegas and his adviser, Leonard Ellerbe, didn't immediately respond Friday to messages from the AP.As a high-profile in...

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