Erin Andrews will talk about sports, about her experience on “Dancing With the Stars” and about her advocacy for crime victims.

As for her status with ESPN once the College World Series ends?

“I’m in a situation where I’m not talking to people about that,” Andrews said Wednesday.

Andrews’ contract expires July 1, meaning the CWS could be her last assignment for the cable sports giant.

Her Los Angeles-based agent, Babette Perry, also declined to comment.

Andrews built her celebrity at ESPN and expanded upon it as a finalist on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” this year. She said she hopes to stay involved in sports but also cross over more into other areas.

“I already have,” she said. “It used to be the guys just wanted to talk to me about sports. Now women know more about me because of ‘Dancing With the Stars’ and they want to ask me about ‘Max,’” she said, referring to her dance partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy.

Andrews said she also wants to continue speaking out on behalf of women who have been crime victims, particularly victims of stalking, such as herself.

A 48-year-old man in March was sentenced to 27 months in prison for following Andrews to at least three cities and shooting videos of her in the nude through hotel peepholes last year.

“My life has totally changed after everything that happened last summer,” Andrews said.

She said she is using her visibility to be a mouthpiece for the strengthening of anti-stalking laws.

“Laws need to be stronger. Right now they’re a big joke,” she said. “Laws haven’t kept up with the times. Stalking has become much more popular.”

She said she plans to become active in the U.S. Justice Department’s “Join the List” campaign, a celebrity-driven campaign marking the 15 years since President Bill Clinton signed the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Andrews also is working with the National Center for the Victims of Crime.

Since her stalking case made news last year, Andrews has said she’s been subjected to taunts from crowds at events.

“You always get idiots who make comments,” she said.

At the CWS, camera phones and digital cameras point at Andrews as she crosses from one dugout to the other between innings and while she’s giving on-field reports, but she said fans have been nice to her.

“Omaha is very easy,” she said. “Omaha people are sweet about everything.”

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Singer Ciara is backing a campaign encouraging young Americans to get tested for HIV – so they will “know what’s going on” with their bodies.

The Get Up hitmaker is fronting the Get Yourself Tested drive to help young people across the U.S. combat sexually transmitted diseases.

Speaking at Sunday’s National Annual HIV Testing Day as part of the campaign, she tells MTV News, “You gotta do it. Knowing is greater than doubt. You’ll feel so much better if you know what’s going on with your body, and you don’t want to be surprised.”

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Lindsay Lohan will appear in a new reality show that will follow her mom, Dina, and her siblings.

Dina said, “We have already started filming. The cameras follow us in our daily lives and as we promote our businesses. I want to prove that we are a good, hardworking family and we don’t have the crazy lives that some people claim we do. The show will feature my kids, and Lindsay will also appear in some episodes, although she’s very busy filming and promoting her fashion lines. We’re discussing a deal with a major network.” But dad Michael isn’t welcome, Dina said.

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Derek Fisher with his wife Candace Fisher

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Lindsay Lohan’s assistant, who quit earlier this month, has been offered a series of huge, five-figure deals to dish on her famous ex-boss.

Sources said the weeklies have been offering cash deals worth around $50,000 to the woman, identified only as Eleanore, who reportedly quit because she was “exhausted” and “had enough of Lindsay’s demands.”

But one source added: “She has so far refused the offers, saying she doesn’t want to tell on Lindsay as she’s afraid she’ll never work again.”

Hip-hop magnate and Nets minority owner Jay-Z has said publicly that he’s not going to pressure his friend LeBron James to join his team, but who says he can’t seduce him a little?

On Friday, less than a week before a handful of NBA ball clubs travel to Ohio to woo the soon-to-be free agent into one of their jerseys, King James spent some quality time with Jay-Z in New York, and got a taste of the super-swank life that could be his if he made the Nets his team.

James made a surprise appearance at the 40th birthday party for branding guru Steve Stoute that took place Friday night at a magnificent seventh-floor roof garden at Rockefeller Center. (In addition to being a close friend of Jay-Z’s, Stoute is the founder of Translations, the marketing firm that has put James together with McDonald’s and other deep-pocketed corporate sponsors.)

At the party, LeBron – who’s no stranger to VIP treatment – got the full Jay-Z Family experience: he arrived with the rapper and his wife Beyoncé. Mary J. Blige was also on hand. He ate a meal catered by Chef April Bloomfield and the staff of the Spotted Pig, which counts Jay-Z as an investor. (Dishes included beef and Stilton pie and Arctic char; and at 2 a.m., breakfast with something called “steak and egg biscuits” was served.) And helping the crowd work off all those calories was Beyoncé’s sister Solange Knowles, who played deejay for the evening.

According to another well-placed source, Jay-Z had plans to hang with LeBron on Thursday as well. The source says that Jay-Z had planned to make a midnight appearance with James at the NBA Draft Party that took place Thursday night at his 40/40 Club on W. 25th St. But, after spending the day working on his greatest hits CD, the rapper was “tired and hungry” and left James to his own devices, and the NBA star landed at Avenue with Blige.

Jay-Z’s night out with James won’t sit well with the New York Knicks. Reports say the Knicks scrapped plans to fete James with a pull-out-all-the-stops dinner in the city when they learned that James wouldn’t be wooed in NYC. The NBA star’s manager Maverick Carter announced that ball clubs would have to make the pilgrimage to Ohio to pitch James.

And it looks like Jay-Z has that angle covered as well. On Thursday, July 1, the day that James officially becomes a free agent, the rapper reportedly will travel to Akron, Ohio, with Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, where the Nets are first in line to make an official play for the forward. But with rumors floating that James is taking a good hard look at the Chicago Bulls, let’s hope Jay-Z was putting the full-court press on his friend this past weekend.

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