Tarik El-Bashir is a sports reporter. El-Bashir originally from Washington, D.C.. He has worked for The Athletic, Washington Post, and NBC Sports Washington providing coverage of the Washington Capitals.
BoldA Howard University graduate, El-Bashir spent 13 years in The Washington Post’s sports department covering high school sports before becoming the paper’s Capitals beat writer. He started his career at The New York Times, where he covered the New York Islanders for two years.
He was hired in September of 2021 to work as part of NHL on TNT's coverage of the National Hockey League as a game and studio commentator.