It’s the night before South Carolina’s 2025 home opener. For Gamecock running back Oscar Adaway III, sleep doesn’t come easily. But it’s not pregame nerves keeping him awake. For the past two years, football has been his escape as he copes with a pain that has weighed on him and his family relentlessly. September 10, 2023. Three days had passed since Alexia “Lex” Adaway, Oscar III’s older sister, last spoke with her family.