Kim Mulkey's controversial coaching style addressed in much-anticipated profile

Hoops coach also one of college basketball's most colourful personalities, viewed by some as an almost cartoonishly ornery supervillain

COLOURFUL: Head coach Kim Mulkey of the LSU Tigers in Saturday's Sweet 16 round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament 

The Washington Post's highly anticipated story on Kim Mulkey was published on Saturday, with the wide-ranging profile walking a fine line between heaping praise on the LSU basketball coach while detailing a combative side that can alienate others.

Mulkey previously threatened legal action against the newspaper, which released the story hours before the Tigers' game against UCLA in the Sweet 16 of the Women's NCAA Tournament.